Democracy.
A word that is constantly used by Presidents and Prime Ministers, who love to remind us how lucky we are to live in a Democratic country.
It is well worth looking at what Democracy is meant to be, and then ask whether people in most of Europe,the U.K.America, Australia ,New Zealand, Canada etc. really do live in a Democracy.
The word, like so many ,is derived from the Greek.John Lennon's song' Power To The People' is really a cry for Democracy,and nothing more, and yet was considered a rebel song!
According to Wikipedia, there are two principals that define Democracy; these are equality and freedom; all citizens are meant to be equal and have equal access to power.Another definition is government by the people.Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) the American President defined it as follows:"Democracy as government of the people, by the people, for the people". No wonder he was shot !
It is obvious from the above definitions, that none of us live in a Democracy.Citizens meant to be equal? No way!
Before the real insanity started to roll in 2003. Almost every'Democratic' country in the World held demonstrations against the Iraq war. The citizens of of 'Democratic 'countries,who believed they lived in 'Democracies' were telling the people they elected that they did not want a war, particularly a war against a country that had done absolutely nothing hostile against them, and was no threat to America, Europe, or the rest of the World.
On 15.2.2003 an anti- war protest was organized as a day of protest, across the World, against the war.Eight hundred cities across the World held protests.The B.B.C. claimed that between 6-10 million people worldwide took part in protests in up to 60 countries.
Other estimates say that 36 million demonstrated; this figure is probably nearer the truth, in view of the B.B.C's record of adjusting stats to suit whoever is in power.
According to the French Academic Dominique Reynie between 3.1. 2003 and 12.4.2003 ,36 million people around the globe took part in almost 3000 anti- war protests.
Toddlers, barristers, the Eton George Orwell Society(not surprisingly) country folk. lecturers.,dentists,poets, artists, civil servants, hairdressers and countless organizations.
In other words, not the usual anti- establishment crowd- though they were there as well.- but people from all walks of life.
It was painfully obvious to anyone who hadn't got the habit of an ostrich that the majority of people around the World did not want this war; not only did they not want it, but so ardent were they, that they were prepared to come out in millions to say so.
It was a defining moment for me, and I suspect for countless others, the realization that it was now obvious that that most of the people in Europe and the U.K. America and all the other so-called Democracies, did not live in a Democracy at all.
We had been spun a big lie. The voices of the people were totally ignored.It made not a jot of difference to the World's leaders, what the people who had elected them wanted.
What arrogance on the leaders parts; what a breach of trust;what a destruction of any last remnants of faith that might have remained in some people who still foolishly had trusted their government.
People could no longer surely believe in the system that they had been part of.The whole set -up was a web of deceit, and our wishes were of no importance whatsoever.
Take just one country as an example.
"Look at Greece today. The country is run by foreigners- the I.M.F dictate how the Greek citizens live. Greece isn't a democracy now; it's run through a Troika- three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and cannot do."
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