File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2002/lyotard.0203, message 5


Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:53:49 -0800
From: Judy <jaw-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: middle east


Hugh, Steve and all:

>
>(One day democracy will be replaced by something slightly more humane
>**Maybe in the U.K.  In the U.S its been replaced by plutocracy.  See
>Webster.


When was it ever not a plutocracy?  The whole idea of the US 
Constitution was to eliminate democracy in substance on the grounds 
that democracy was prone to instability, thus being unwise for the 
economy, and was unjust in that it led to practices such as 
redistribution of wealth, such practices as were occuring under the 
Articles of Confederation.  See for example, James Madison, the 
Federalist Paper #10 where he explicity goes into this. He argues 
that the new Constitution will provide the forms of democracy without 
the too much of the substance. Those are my words, not his, but read 
the Federalist #10. The Federalist papers were the propaganda for the 
new constitution, they were meant to be persuasive.  Check out the 
nature of the arguments if you think the designers of the 
constitution intended or approved of democracy in practice.



>
>is.  **They and the U.S. and the U.K. and a host other certified Christian
>nations plus all those faceless intellectuals are only doing God's will per
>His instructions, as they interpret His voice - telling them the holiness of
>their beliefs in teaching the infidels a lesson.
>


I was bemused this week to read in the paper about the exposure of 
Billy Graham's anti-semitism on the tapes made by Nixon of all his 
Oval Office conversations.  Both Nixon and Grahan agree on the tapes 
that the jews control the mass media and are ruining the country as a 
result.  Graham says he has a lot of Jews  who are "great friends" 
who don't know how he really feels, and these men agree, they must 
keep this secret.  It would not be good to be open about this, they 
agree.  Shamelessly of course.  Graham has been the religious 
counselor for the other President Bush as well and is very well 
politically connected at various levels of power. I remember feeling 
offended at the 1st Bush's inauguration, Graham was brought out to 
say a prayer over the new world order, and he spoke directly to 
Christ and asked him to guide America, etc., what poor taste.  So 
now, Graham who is totally busted says he doesn't remember ever 
making those anti-semitic remarks and after all they don't represent 
his true views, yeah right.  what a paragon of virtue he is.  Not.
Judy

   

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