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Democracy,
like the Nice treaty, is when - if allowed to vote
on an issue - the population vote against the establishments
preference and the establishment realizing that they
know what is best for you and that you have simply
misunderstood by voting against their wishes, will
with massive media and endless advertisement grant
you another and if need be yet another chance to vote
the right way - all for selfish interest.
Democracy
is a nation state calling together other states to
attack another because of a perception that they may
have broken a UN or other such agreement or resolution,
while in tandem defending, funding, and arming those
who have broken numerous resolutions, laws, agreements
etc - all for selfish interest.
Democracy
is attemping to show that you are that beacon of democracy
and that you will fight so all countries and peoples
can be democratized and have the right to elect their
leaders, while at the same time - as with Hugo Chavez
of Venezuela - attempting to overthrow a popular democratic
elected leader - all for selfish interest.
Democracy
is going to war to protect peoples from repressive
states and when the war is 'won' to close the doors
on the refugees you have created or alternatively
pull out and leave civil war, division and destruction
behind - all for selfish interest.
Democracy
is to open up our public services to the free market
and profiteers in the 'interest of the people' while
at they same time destroying whole economies through
massive austerity measures, privatization and forced
implementation for leading states' interest. Which
has already meant the ever continual destroying of
millions of lives - all for that selfish interest.
So
on this understanding democracy then is agreeing in
principle while destroying in practice.
This
is why this week you will see European wide strikes,
a general strike in Spain combined with tens of thousands
of anti capitalist activists marching against the
EU summit in Seville. This is why in the months ahead
hundreds of thousands will march and meet around Europe
against war, racism and neo-liberalism. Many thousands
in the times ahead will also take to the streets of
Ireland with hundreds more as before demonstrating
with many others at such European meetings. While
the television and most of the mainstream media, especially
post Sept 11th, will articulate their given versions
of these upcoming and continual protests, the reality
though is simple. We will continually march against
imperialism and war, we will march against racism
and the continual scapegoating of the most vulnerable,
we will march against neo-liberalism and forced and
threatened consensus of peoples and countries, we
will march against the repression of our civil and
human rights and the oppression of peoples. We will
march for a better world, a world not dominated by
ruling greed, racism or war but for a world of equality
and justice, a world for the majority and not the
minority, a world run not for state selfish interest
or international ruling interest but for the interest
of international peoples.
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