Democracy Isn't Liberty

The New American Magazine ^ | February 5, 2005 | William Norman Grigg

[Mikey]

"Democracy and socialism are inseparable."
V.I. Lenin

THE SOLDIER'S TRAINING MANUAL

Issued by the War Department, November 30, 1928, set forth the exact and truthful definitions of a democracy and of a republic - this manual was ordered destroyed by the infamous F. D. Roosevelt, so that he could institute a democracy utilizing social security as a means to make everyone a slave to the Federal Government.

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DEMOCRACY:

* A government of masses.
* Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression
* Results in mobocracy.
* Attitude toward property is communistic-negating property rights.
* Attitude toward law is that he will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
* Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

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REPUBLIC:

* Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

* Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

* Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

* A greater number of Citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

* Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.

* Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

* Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of;

(1) an executive and

(2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

(3) a judiciary to pass upon justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

(4) certain inherent individual rights.

"Take away any one of these four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy."

-- Atwood.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican for of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and empathically that they had founded a republic.

See article 4, sec 4, clause 1 of the Constitution for the United States.

Democracy

Definition: political system based on collective rights, where power is vested and wielded according to majority vote (rule by the many).
Democracy is the political expression of Collectivism, aka 'collective rights', in which man's rights are determined by the size of his constituency.
Democracy is characterized by pressure-group warfare, with competing groups battling for the rights to destroy (e.g., tax, ban, enslave, deport, etc.) each other. Since democracy determines right and wrong by majority vote, a thug need only garner a big enough group of supporters in order legalize his crimes.
A democracy is not a republic.
Republics establish government to protect rights as absolutes; democracies, on the other hand, establish government to redistribute rights as booty, according to the recipients' or victims' gang size.
A democracy commits suicide as soon as the weakest 51% of its population discovers that it can vote to enslave the strongest 49%. America's progressive tax rates are a good example of this.

Republic

Definition: political system based on individual rights, which the government is chartered to protect.

A republic is a political system founded on the principle of individual rights, with government established strictly to protect those rights. Government in a republic is limited to its specific, limited duties as chartered via its constitution; typically, these powers are those of police, courts, military, and international treaty-making. As a result, the defining feature of republics is government-protected liberty.

A republic is not a democracy, even though some of its activities are handled democratically. A democracy is different than a republic in one enormous respect: a democracy is founded on the contradiction of 'collective rights'. For further discussion, see the entry for 'democracy'.

Republics commit suicide by losing sight of their founding principle -- individual rights -- and then, when confronted with difficult questions that require principles to answer, resorting to the seemingly attractive idea of collective rights ("the common good") instead.

This first occurred in America during the Civil War, and thereafter recurred with increasing frequency.

Today America is a democracy teetering on the edge of socialism.

That's the difference: individual rights versus 'collective rights'. The former is a redundancy, the latter a contradiction: one cannot acquire more rights than others merely by joining a group.

A republic acknowledges that each man owns his own life, and therefore has the right to be selfish.

A democracy does not recognize this right; it asserts that man's life (property, resources, etc.) belongs to the state , (and if you don’t believe it, try adding an extension on ‘your’ home without a permit from the city or town or State, etc!) and is to be apportioned by majority vote for "the common good". The next time someone tells you it's wrong to be selfish, and that selflessness and Altruism and The Public Good are noble, you'll know which side he's on.

Democracy vs Republic

A Democracy:

Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

A Republic:

The flock gets to vote for which wolves vote on dinner.

A Constitutional Republic:

Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed.

Federal Government:

The means by which the sheep will be fooled into voting for a Democracy.

Democrats and Republicans:

sheep who think they are wolves.

The ultimate democracy is a lynch mob.

[hosepipe]

Democracy is the disease that causes socialism which is merely a symptom of democracy... No democracy ever existed that was NOT a socialist system.. Democracy causes socialism.. in every place, in every time, always..

Thats why the U.S. Constitution has three words found nowhere within it..

1) democracy..
2) democractic..
3) or democrat... its not an oversight, its on purpose..

Democracy breeds socialism which is slavery by government..