From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 02:54:53 GMT
Platt and all lovers of democracy:
Platt, your response was not only predictable, it was exactly the same as
your response the last five time we went down this road. Surely, you're just
as bored with it as I? I could re-post stuff I wrote last year or the year
before that, but it would probably just put our dear readers to sleep.
Instead, here are some words to ponder...
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the world -- no longer a Government
of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of
dominant men."
-- Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President during World War I.
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and
the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety
of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."
-- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov 21, 1864.
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the
people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes
stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism -
ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other
controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without
equal in history is growing."
--President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. And when you're
inside, and look around, what do you see? Businessmen. Teachers. Lawyers.
Carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But, until
we do, these people are still a part of that system. And, that makes them
our enemy. You have to understand: Most of these people are not ready to be
unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the
system, that they will fight to protect it.
-- Morpheus (from the movie "The Matrix")
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe
the people with their own money."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a
philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by the
few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments
and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this
wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of
the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is,
therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim
extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the
most free and most popular."
-- David Hume. Of the First Principles of Government. 1758.
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military
Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for
granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper
together."
-- President Eisenhower - January 1961.
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to
supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist
regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in
Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the
Nazi regime. ... Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with
bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended
aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep
it there."
-- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937.
"It is [free] market fundamentalism that has rendered the global capitalist
system unsound and unsustainable...market fundamentalism is today a greater
threat to open society than any totalitarian ideology."
-- George Soros in "The Crisis of Global Capitalism, Open Society
Endangered", 1998.
"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great
wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both"
-- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corparations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country"
-- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan in 1816
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