"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
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> http://chrono.faq/.404/
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> Thanks but no thanks. My organization will have nothing
> to do with such an unrepresentaive, undemocratic,
> uninclusive gathering. - Mike Roberts Aug 28/98
This is rather amusing at first read-through but takes on a more
sinister aspect later, as one comes to realize that such
manipulation of democratic principles - invoking them when it is
convenient and denying them when it is not - is just the sort of
hypocrital con that is being practiced continually by our national
government: the defense of democracy as a pretext for military
expansion, and at the same time the denial of democracy to the
peoples brought under the dominion of the United States.
We should not forget that Mike Roberts is and remains one of the key
engineers of the coup that suppressed an incipient democratic
movement - the International Forum on the White Paper - and
supplanted it with a self-appointed oligarchy of "superior beings"
who have been dictating policy to the users of the Internet for
three years now, with the inevitable consequence of loss of control
over Internet addresses by their users, both individual and
national.
This is the same strategy and tactics used by our national
government to impose unpopular, U.S.-serving governments in every
part of the world they can get their hands on. There should be no
surprise in this, since it is the same people doing both, the
secretive engineers of international terrorism, the CIA the NSA. It
is they who created the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, they who
created the paramilitary death squads in Colombia, Chile, Argentina,
Nicaragua, Honduras and everywhere else in Latin America, they who
have selected, trained, and deployed terrorists in every country in
the world where the population has attempted to organize a
democratic government.
Mike Roberts, like our national leaders, claims, when it suits his
purposes, to be a staunch and principled upholder of democratic
principles, but in practice it is just the opposite. "Pay attention
to what people do, not what they say." Sound advice that we ignore
at our own peril.
M.S.
