Do you realy think this is a Democracy?

[serryjw]

You are living under a rock.........

quote.....
This frightening news comes as Washington is gripped by reborn, Cold-War-style paranoia, ominous threats of war against Iran from the real president, Dick Cheney, and a titanic bureaucratic battle just won by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Instead of being fired for the grotesque military-political fiasco in Iraq and the shameful torture scandals, Rumsfeld has just managed to create a new, Pentagon spy/special ops organization, blandly named "Strategic Support Branch,
Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become the Pentagon's CIA, complete with commando units, spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering and analysis, and a direct line to the White House. The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the spy business.

The Pentagon's new spy arm will be largely excluded from Congressional oversight or media examination

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/06/922316.html

[Osamasux]

1. Yes, still a Democracy.

It's just time to take out the trash. :grr:

[politicaholic]

2. What happens when you mix SS with KGB?

All of a sudden there's an epidemic of communicable "Spontanious Combustion" amoung the liberal and muslim population.

"We suspect it's either caused by microbrew or facing Mecca for extended periods of time." -Donald Rumsfeld-

[Democrat Dragon]

3. If the sheeple still keep up the apathy.....

then Democracy is doomed.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

4. Yes. Democracy is alive and well.

There are indeed forces trying to bring it down, from outside and from within, but America is strong. We will survive.

[serryjw]

7. I gues we will have to agre to disagree

When transparency is gone. When there are no check andf balance, When the King can do what ever the hell he wants, this is not a democracy. Will we survive? Yes, but not in the form of government we thought

[autorank]

5. Excellent post. No, it's a Republic teetering in tyranny.

[Free2BMe]

6. Absolutely! It is far less a democracy than most realize.