On 5 Feb 2003 at 17:25, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > Several reasons. First, I think the European Union is > > > profoundly anti-democratic. It concerns me greatly, > > > >What's so wonderful about *reprisentative* democracy? Every time I > >read about how wonderful it is, I remember that Hitler being elected. > > > > Representative democracy doesn't prevent Hitler's from attaining > power. The purpose of representative democracy is to 'theoretically' > allow the will of the majority of the people to be heard.
I agree. And that's the problem with reprisentative democravcy as practiced. And I'd leave the ' ' s off theoretically. > >Democracy is fine in theory, but I have a HUGE problem with how it > >works in practice. Especially in the USA. > > > > > The central thrust of the European Union the way it is > > > structured is a transfer of power from the elected > > > representatives of the various nations of Western > > > Europe to an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels. It's > > > >*snicker* > > > > Could you elaborate, please? Judicial. Branch. > >Okay. This is what convinces me you're not looking at the situation > >anything like clearly. The Franco-German axis is NOT popular right > >now inside Europe. If anything, England, Spain and other countries > >have the whip hand. > > Do they? I haven't seen anything that reflects this on, say the BBC, > FREX. Can you point me in the direction of a credible news source > that could explain further? The BBC is one of the most biased news sources in the world... (don't get me started on their coverage of Israel either...) The news links I were off Baen's Bar, I'll find them after this (you tend to need to dig for them a bit). It's what I'm seeing from the overall picture as well, mind you. > Also, France is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. > Germany's term doesn't end until 2004. All it takes is one French > vote, and any proposal is outta there. Thank for for nicely illustrating why I don't like the UN as currently structured. Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
