{"article":{"id":14223,"heading":"Democracy in USA is fragile - a letter to the editor","author":"WEF","created":"2002-01-20 21:03:20","modified":"2002-01-20 22:00:13","last_modified":"Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:00:13","article":"<p>Democracy in USA is fragile - a letter to the editor <br><br> Part I <br><br> A number of letters to the editor have without restraint  <br>  <br> praised the maintenance of democracy in United States <br>  <br> although the question of democracy in USA remains  <br>  <br> highly complex. <br><br> The democracy in USA is a trifle summoned up in  <br>  <br> a constitutional right to vote a new face to the  <br>  <br> White House, when people get tired of the old face. <br><br> Another business is that neither people nor the  <br>  <br> democracy in USA have no means to get an insight <br>  <br> in to the guard of grey eminences that de facto <br>  <br> rule the country by influencing the presidential institution <br>  <br> and its unparliamentary compounded administration-government. <br><br> Practically it is being done by advisors, co-advisors, a row of  <br>  <br> committees, so called think tanks(CFR, TC, Bilderberg <br>  <br> group) and a range of other semipolitical societies with an  <br>  <br> untold agenda. <br><br> USA is also a nation that has a range of other halfpublic <br>  <br> organizations and institutions in which even the president <br>  <br> and ministers are not given too much of an insight to. <br>  <br> For example FED, CIA, NSA, NRO, FEMA, IRS etc. <br><br> For example the action taken by the NSA through the <br>  <br> global ECHELON eavesdropping system is apparently <br>  <br> being operated without any democratic control. <br><br> The long-drawn, infamous and democratically <br>  <br> incontrollable role of the CIA in international <br>  <br> drug and weaponbusiness and \"black budget\" financing <br>  <br> of USA-friendly coupmakers in countries with strategic <br>  <br> natural resources is notorious - Panama, Iran, Irak, Saudi- <br>  <br> Arabia, Afghanistan etc. <br><br> Likewise have many senators and representatives of the <br>  <br> congress with no success demanded insight to the <br>  <br> bookkeeping of the so called centralbank  <br>  <br> FEDERAL RESERVE.  <br><br> The military is largely a state within the state which is <br>  <br> divided into USAF, US NAVY, US ARMY etc. <br>  <br> The politicians haven`t got a clue of whats going on <br>  <br> in various militarybases. Some of them doesn`t even <br>  <br> exist officially - like the notorious Area 54 in Nevada. <br>  <br> National Security is the answer as we know. <br>  <br> Any measures taken in the name of National Security <br>  <br> are considered justified. <br><br> The spaceadministration NASA and its unexplainable <br>  <br> reticence has lead to that NASA has become famous <br>  <br> as \"Not-A-Straight-Answer\" if anyone from the senate <br>  <br> or congress has demanded an insight to where the money <br>  <br> has gone. <br><br> And all the astronauts are bound by military status and <br>  <br> obligation to observe silence. One can only make assumptions <br>  <br> of what secrets they are likely to carry when a considerable <br>  <br> number of them have either drowned themselves in alcohol <br>  <br> or committed suicide. Citizens have no insight into their <br>  <br> private experiences in the space when they flatly deny, <br>  <br> refuse to comment and refer to official spokesmen of NASA. <br><br> The book Dark Moon. Apollo and the Whistleblowers by <br>  <br> David Percy(Aulis Publishing 1999) raises a lot of <br>  <br> questions concerning what is true and what is untrue visavi <br>  <br> moonexpeditions that were accomplished during the  <br>  <br> hottest period of cold war.  <br><br> Summa summarum: No wonder that a variety of conspiracy <br>  <br> theories flourish concerning the USA-doings - and with good <br>  <br> reason. More than 60 % of the americans believe that <br>  <br> federal authorities in one or another way were directly involved <br>  <br> in the murder of president Kennedy.(Scripp-Howard News <br>  <br> Service poll 1997) <br><br> Consequently one should know the difference between theory  <br>  <br> and practice of the principles of democracy implemented <br>  <br> in todays USA. <br><br> To be continued.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Part I","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/01\/14223.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}