03-29-2004, 04:18 AM
Quote:<i>Originally posted by Dan </i><b>Bismillah</b>
I thought the whole theory behind democracy was the people really did control what the government did. The system is set up so that people can change it.
No kind of government can ever stop corruption from within. Look at any government that has been presented by philosophers, socialists, marxists, people that are pro-capitalism, etc. You will NEVER get a government that cannot be corrupted from within. You also have to look at how corrupt some of these muslim leaders are as well. Israel and the U.S. cannot always be the enemy.
<b> The problem is that it requires effort. Most of us are content to watch who the latest celebrities are dating and which team won which games.</b>
Because of our hard work we are entitled to this. This is why no kind of government is fully capable of functioning without flaws in the system. No government has the majority of its citizens informed with what's going on.
<b>This nation is asleep. Yet is that an excuse for not knowing what is happening in the world and even in our own country?</b>
Since you seem to know exactly what has been going on, why don't you inform us?
<b>By this reasoning, the citizens of Nazi Germany played no part in the murdering of millions of people, jews, gypsies, catholics, and other prisoners.</b>
No they didn't. It was the NAZIS' who commited the acts. I promise if Iraq truly had power and Saddam had called for an all out war against innocent civilians in Israel, they would. Every citizen fights for THEIR country, whether that deed be seen as wrong in the future or not.
<b> Most of them did not know what truly happened in the concentration camps. So are they completely absolved of these attrocities?</b>
Yes, the people are not involved in governmental affairs. See corruption from within from my earlier statements
<b> I believe not. They are the ones who put such a government into power. By doing so, they are shouldering some of the responcibiltiy of what that government does.</b>
You forget that Germany had no other choice that to elect the NAZI party as head of the government. If they had known of Hitlar's intentions I am sure they wouldn't have elected him
<b>I do not believe that self-inflicted ignorance is an excuse for anything, not when the alternative is so readily available.</b>
Neither do I, but you cannot blame innocent civilians when they hear two different things. Who do you expect them to believe? The people that we elected to office, or a bunch of terrorists that are promised 72 blind dates when they die for 'God?'