Hi Ernie.
Answers in BF embedded.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
--- On Thu, 1/5/12, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RC] [ RC ] Brief look at Iowa results and etc " INEPTOCRACY "
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 10:12 AM
Hi Tomas,
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 5, 2012, at 8:05, Tomas de Utrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> As it stands right now there will be no sharing of power if it is left up to
> our present leaders.
That is always the case.
No argument here. BTW "our present leaders" is not limited to BHO or the
Republicans. That includes Merkel, Sarkozy, Rajoy, Noda etc.
Power, like money, is rarely valued if given freely. We have to fight for it.
Power (or money) is something one has to take. No one person or entity in
history has ever "freely" given up power . At least no one I can think of. Even
in the most recent case of the US, we became powerful by a void that was
created after WWII but we still had to bend down and pick up the heavy mantle
of power. How well we have done will only be told by history.
The real benefit of Democracy is that you don't have to kill the existing
leaders to take power back.
At least not physically.
MLK proved you can take power through sheer moral authority. So could we, if we
were willing to the price he did.
With regard to the "taking of power" history offers us many examples both
positive and negative. To me one of the finest examples and most civilized
(especially for the era) was the manner in which Queen Sundeok (the first woman
to hold absolute dominion in East Asia) took the power, separated powers and
advanced the technology of the time among other things and all within a period
of less than 2 decades..
If we are waiting for someone else to solve our political problems, then maybe
we really don't deserve to have them solved.
Good point. This is what we have always done because we had faith in out
government and the system. We consider it the job of government to solve these
problems for the good of the nation. It worked in the past but not so much
today. So if the people (you and I) don't stand up and shout we are going to be
left out and we WILL wind up with a very unpleasant form of government. The
politicians , if allowed to do so, will carry out things that the people will
wake up to find as law, as happened in Chicago in one night. The laws passed
surprised, unpleasently, just about everyone. Let's see if any of us are
willing to stand up to the new mayor.
T
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