[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] PLUG vs. PLUG

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, none wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:16, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > It's not completely democratic if it's secret.  That's an oxymoron.
>
> America is a representative republic, democracy doesn't work.

These two statements have nothing to do with one another.  The former
true, the latter false.

> This became clear with Shay's rebellion and the powerlessness of the
> nation's initial Confederate government to regulate Interstate commerce,
> etc.  The South's short lived Confederacy didn't work either.  That may
> have been more economic than anything else though.

Every large-scale democratic organization has been systematically
disassembled by the existing power structures because of the obvious
threat posed.

J.
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