who said information is the current of democracy?
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"Information is the currency of democracy."  Thomas Jefferson
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First we are not a democracy, we are a representative republic.  We have a rule of law.  But we are submerging.  Information that is truthful is power and we have hid so much of what this country has done and not done.  JFK documents still sealed as an example, conspiracy or not, it is time to know what is in the reports.  We have millions of pages of documents censored to the gills to keep us from knowing the truth on who knows how many subjects.  The reason given...national securtiy.  Only military secrets should be given this classification, and intellegence processes should be protected.  I don't want to know how you got the info, I just want to know what the info is.
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Governments have always lied to the people.  In the worst cases, it's malicious -- a bid for power, money, whatever -- but in the case of the U.S. I sincerely believe that many of the lies have a more mundane purpose: communication.  Korlach Kyle is right -- you keep the people ignorant and they won't rise up.  The thing is, that the lies are not the cause of the ignorance but the effect.  Few of us have the time to deeply understand the issues.  I don't.  So the power brokers, whose job it is to understand the issues, simplify for us.  In the act of simplification, history is written and something between half-truths and lies are told.  We're fortunate in this country that the truth is largely discoverable if we're willing to search for it and demand it.  This last fact is relative.  Freedom of information changes.  Recently, we've elected to sacrifice some of our freedom, and some of our information, for security, but balancing this is the huge increase in the disemmination of info via the internet.  Dissemination, of course, is not the same as availability.  It would be a shame if we agreed to continue in this direction -- curtailing more freedoms for security -- out of fear.  We are a fearful people -- afraid of germs, afraid of fanatics, afraid of arguments, afraid of thinking too hard -- but we're also a fiercely proud people.  Already our representatives on both sides of the aisle are beginning to insist on our freedoms back as the ant farm gets its peace back.
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ask a democrat they claim to know it all
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Public Education. Mainstream media always refer to it as a democracy.  As Karl Marx would say "repeat a lie enough, it becomes the truth." By the Way it's a Federal Republic, where the power are divided and defused between the three branches of government and the States
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it is correct to say that the democracy is a religion. from the times of the socrates and plato , great scholars have regarded the democracy as the supreme form of governemnt. in today's world it is impossible to think of a governemnt without the demacracy. in a way the democracy is the "government by discussion". it is equally important to know that only democratic governemnt allows its citizens to freely state their views . thus , democracy is a true religion.
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uh...democracy's side
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Here's my favorite short quip:\n"What's the difference between Bush and Hitler?"\n\n"Hitler was democratically elected."
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Democratic statement.
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. — Harry Truman\n\nThis is the correct quote. It was in a interview with William Hillman.\n\nJournalist and news commentator; editor of Mr. President (1952); assistant to Harry S. Truman in various writing projects, including Truman's Memoirs (1955-56) and Mr. Citizen (1960). \n\nThe papers of William Hillman mostly document his association with Harry S. Truman and his work as editor and assistant to Mr. Truman in the writing and publication of Mr. President (1952), Memoirs (1955-56), Mr. Citizen (1960), and a number of syndicated newspaper and magazine articles. The collection also contains materials relating to proposed publishing and television projects involving the former President, and Hillman's role as Truman's literary agent and adviser. Also documented is Truman's work, with the assistance of Hillman and David Noyes, on a history of the U.S. Presidency that was never finished. The papers include manuscript drafts in various stages of completion, interview transcripts, research materials, correspondence, handwritten notes, printed materials, press releases, and other items.
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Winston Churchill had a great quote about this:\n"The best arguement against democracy is a 5 minute chat with your average voter."\n\nIn short, people is stupid.  Get used to it, sorry to burst your bubble.
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Great questions.  He wasn't alone in seeing that democracy isn't perfect; Plato laid out some of the best arguments for and against the various forms of government in his book, Republic.  But I don't read Churchill's quote as being negative about democracy at all, but rather stating that democracy is the best one out there   His actual quote was “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”  It sounds like Churchill didn't see a better form, even if Plato did offer a few.  Bog, Ante
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What is your source for this information?
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Depends--What's your idea of "real democracy"?  Is it where citizens vote for who they want to lead them?  Is so, then I seem to recall a few newspapers might have had a FRIGGIN HUGE PURPLE-INKED THUMB ON THEIR FRONT PAGES after elections in Iraq.  I'm not really sure what that means, though.  Maybe it's just a secret club or something.
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Democracy is a front word.  The goal is to spread democracy all over the globe to create a new world order, all countries ruled under one leader ship.  Which in reality there are those who control everything anyway, but slowly they instill fear (like the fake government sponsored 9-11 event http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change)into the sheeple to make the transition unnoticable.
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Legally it's the United Nations  running the world.  Whatever happened to Democracy?  Even our military is being controlled by the United Nations.  Our country is slowly losing it's right to free choice and free speech.
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"consent"\n\ngenerally, "democracy"