Feigning Democracy
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Those who sit at the top often forget that democracy is based on the word demos, or the power of the people.
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DEMOCRACY, friend, is really a verb. Centuries ago, the word was worn around the necks of men who invented the word in Athens, the same people who subsequently sentenced Socrates to death by poison. Democracy only lives and breathes if people who think differently are free to put forward their differences without being threatened with murder, exile, imprisonment or restraint.
In this modern world, like in Haiti, or in Indonesia during the
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