"Democracy" by the Sword

"Democracy" by the Sword
by Peacock_Feather
05-Oct-2012
 

I know no country in which, speaking generally, there is less independence of mind and true freedom of discussion than in America. In America, the majority has enclosed thought within a formidable fence. A writer is free inside that area, but woe to the man who goes beyond it...Formerly tyranny used the clumsy weapons of chains and hangmen; nowadays even despotism, though it seemed to have nothing more to learn, has been perfected by civilization. Princes made violence a physical thing, but our contemporary democratic republics have turned it into something as intellectual as the human will is intended to constrain. Under the absolute government of a single man, despotism, to reach the soul, clumsily struck at the body, and the soul, escaping from such blows, rose gloriously above it; but in democratic republics that is not at all how tyranny behaves; it leaves the body alone and goes straight to the soul. In the proudest nations of the Old World works were published which faithfully portrayed the vices and absurdities of contemporaries but the power that dominates in the United States does not understand being mocked like that. The least reproach offends it, and the slightest sting of truth turns it fierce, and one must praise everything, from the turn of its phrases to its most robust virtues. No writer, no matter how famous, can escape from this obligation to sprinkle incense over his fellow citizens. Hence the majority lives in a state of perpetual self-adoration; only strangers or experience may be able to bring certain truth to the Americans' attention ~ Alexis de Toqcueville

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Zendanian

You're the one covering up murders and assasinations,

by Zendanian on Fri Oct 05, 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Spreading hate speech against a long repressed religious minority in Iran, in every opportunity you get, that means every single day.

Distorting the History of Black Liberation in Americas as religious based.

Obscureing Theater of the Oppressed as a religious based school of thought.

And if anyone tells you you're full of it, they become agents of this and that.

How pathetic can you get?

Then again I really shouldn't be asking you that question, since there is no end or limits to wretchedness of coolies of thugs in Tehran. 

 


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Peacock_Feather

Zionist stooges do all the labelling

by Peacock_Feather on Fri Oct 05, 2012 09:22 AM PDT

We just call it how it is.


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Zendanian

When coolies of thugs in Tehran have to resort to labeling all

by Zendanian on Fri Oct 05, 2012 09:19 AM PDT

their opponents.

Calling names and at last resorting to that old most favourite lable of chauvinist Persians: Separatism.

In your twisted little world people should determine the cultural contours of how they live, but if they want to speak thier own language or be seen as equals with the power centers of the country, all of a sudden they're "Separatists." How pathetic can you get?


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Zendanian

When world's complexities are "expalined" in one little book

by Zendanian on Fri Oct 05, 2012 09:20 AM PDT

Of course everything else outside of that misreable little book has to refuted.

Demo I really miss my daily comic relief from your Koranic "intrepetations." Do you take request? I would like to know what Koran says about March 8th, May 1st and 16th Of Azar? Cheers


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Peacock_Feather

When Zionist operatives hide behind leftism, Marxism &

by Peacock_Feather on Fri Oct 05, 2012 09:01 AM PDT

Separatism.

A real democracy should also mean that people determine the cultural contours of how their democratic polity is going to look like themselves and not the USA or the UK imposing their own Eurocentric models on others who don't want them.


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Zendanian

When IR stooges hide behind "Anarchism"

by Zendanian on Fri Oct 05, 2012 08:57 AM PDT

Democracy means people's rule through free and fair elections?

If they chose to have Anarchism, then so be it.

Anarchism as the spontaneous flow of life is very much compatiable with People' Rule, but even that has to be confirmed and established through fair and free elections, by the people. Not mullahs, not the vanguard party, not shah or MEK.

And definitely not coolies of IR. Cheers

 


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Peacock_Feather

Nope

by Peacock_Feather on Fri Oct 05, 2012 08:46 AM PDT

If you want ultimate solutions, then it wouldn't be democracy; but rather it would be Anarchy.

Paid and unpaid stooges of Tel Aviv are just a bunch of proven know-nothing fools who are more interested in potential looting and future financial thuggery and self-enrichment than they are of the Iranian people.


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Zendanian

Peopel's rule, Democracy is the ultimate solution.

by Zendanian on Fri Oct 05, 2012 08:43 AM PDT

Religious reactionary forces that think of Democracy and people's rule as "Hypocricy," and have worked hand in glove with Western powers for decades are the problem. 

Paid and unpaid coolies of thugs in Tehran are just a bunch of clowns.


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Demo

Democracy is Hypocricy!

by Demo on Fri Oct 05, 2012 07:56 AM PDT


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