Democracy in USA is fragile - a letter to the editor

Part I

A number of letters to the editor have without restraint

praised the maintenance of democracy in United States

although the question of democracy in USA remains

highly complex.

The democracy in USA is a trifle summoned up in

a constitutional right to vote a new face to the

White House, when people get tired of the old face.

Another business is that neither people nor the

democracy in USA have no means to get an insight

in to the guard of grey eminences that de facto

rule the country by influencing the presidential institution

and its unparliamentary compounded administration-government.

Practically it is being done by advisors, co-advisors, a row of

committees, so called think tanks(CFR, TC, Bilderberg

group) and a range of other semipolitical societies with an

untold agenda.

USA is also a nation that has a range of other halfpublic

organizations and institutions in which even the president

and ministers are not given too much of an insight to.

For example FED, CIA, NSA, NRO, FEMA, IRS etc.

For example the action taken by the NSA through the

global ECHELON eavesdropping system is apparently

being operated without any democratic control.

The long-drawn, infamous and democratically

incontrollable role of the CIA in international

drug and weaponbusiness and "black budget" financing

of USA-friendly coupmakers in countries with strategic

natural resources is notorious - Panama, Iran, Irak, Saudi-

Arabia, Afghanistan etc.

Likewise have many senators and representatives of the

congress with no success demanded insight to the

bookkeeping of the so called centralbank

FEDERAL RESERVE.

The military is largely a state within the state which is

divided into USAF, US NAVY, US ARMY etc.

The politicians haven`t got a clue of whats going on

in various militarybases. Some of them doesn`t even

exist officially - like the notorious Area 54 in Nevada.

National Security is the answer as we know.

Any measures taken in the name of National Security

are considered justified.

The spaceadministration NASA and its unexplainable

reticence has lead to that NASA has become famous

as "Not-A-Straight-Answer" if anyone from the senate

or congress has demanded an insight to where the money

has gone.

And all the astronauts are bound by military status and

obligation to observe silence. One can only make assumptions

of what secrets they are likely to carry when a considerable

number of them have either drowned themselves in alcohol

or committed suicide. Citizens have no insight into their

private experiences in the space when they flatly deny,

refuse to comment and refer to official spokesmen of NASA.

The book Dark Moon. Apollo and the Whistleblowers by

David Percy(Aulis Publishing 1999) raises a lot of

questions concerning what is true and what is untrue visavi

moonexpeditions that were accomplished during the

hottest period of cold war.

Summa summarum: No wonder that a variety of conspiracy

theories flourish concerning the USA-doings - and with good

reason. More than 60 % of the americans believe that

federal authorities in one or another way were directly involved

in the murder of president Kennedy.(Scripp-Howard News

Service poll 1997)

Consequently one should know the difference between theory

and practice of the principles of democracy implemented

in todays USA.

To be continued.