Hakan,
If it is a government of the people, by the people, for the people, then it is a democracy. A society in which the people do not have the option to change their government if they don't like it is not a democracy. What democracies are there in the Middle East? I would count Israel and Turkey, but the others are for the most part desert satrapies. You are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to disagree with you. Ah, the joys of free speech! ;-) By the way, what did you think of George Bush's proposal yesterday to invest $1.2 billion towards research in developing a hydrogen powered car? That would not be biofuel, but it would be renewable and not make our societies dependent on corrupt dictatorships. I would like to see us develop nuclear fusion power, such as our sun runs on. It has run for billions of years on the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. In that case, energy would become unbelievably cheap, and we could forget about this scarcity mentality that requires us to conserve energy. It is like conserving air! Free energy occurs in abundance in nature, and we need to learn to harness it, or imitate it. One question of economic significance would be how to generate hydrogen cheaply. Damian On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Hakan Falk wrote: > >Dear Damian, > >Another skewed view about dictatorships and democracy. Many of what we >historically consider as the the worst examples of dictators, was duly >elected by the people in a democratic system. On state or country level, >some countries try to apply very global dictatorship towards the world >community. That is the true dictatorship, not elected in any democratic way >and maintained by military power. I would be very careful in waving the >democracy and social justice flag if I was from US, especially at the >current times. Nor does US have a very clean history to be proud of. > >It is naive to believe in any absolute justice, even if it is a noble goal >and a dream worth while pursuing. To belive that US have achieved some sort >of near perfect status, is very wrong and extremely dangerous. I would not >place them very high on the list of good democracies (within top 30), but >this is a very personal opinion, as most of this about democracy. > >Hakan > > >At 12:13 PM 1/28/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >>There is virtue in not being dependant on Middle Eastern oil, mostly >>because it is foolish to tie our national economy, and hence its security, >>to a region of the world devoid of democracy and social justice, where >>most of the countries are backward dictatorships. Even our "friends" >>the Saudis, are a backward corrupt dictatorship. >> >>Damian Anderson -- Damian J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unification.net Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
