<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p align="left"><strong>"To state it in a single sentence, elections:
are controlled by the bourgeoisie; are not the means through which
basic decisions are made in any case; and are really for the primary
purpose of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">legitimizing the system</span> and the policies and actions of the
ruling class, giving them the<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> mantle of a 'popular mandate</span>,' and of
channeling, confining, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">controlling the political activity </span>of the
masses of people."</strong></p>
<p align="right"> from<br>
<em>Democracy: Can’t We Do Better Than That?</em><br>
by <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1225719951_0">Bob Avakian</span></p><p align="right"><br></p>More at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.revcom.us"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1225719951_1">www.revcom.us</span></a><br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 11/3/08, Deanna Spingola <i><deanna@spingola.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Deanna Spingola <deanna@spingola.com><br>Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] does it matter who "wins" the election? [was:Philip Berg Obama ...]<br>To: "Citizens Truth" <citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net><br>Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 7:14 AM<br><br><div id="yiv943100803">
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<div>Despite popular misconceptions, our government is a representative Republic (not a democracy). In both democracies and Republics people vote. That single act does not make you free. Those who finagle their way into office are supposed to represent the voters who allegedly put them there. They are also supposed to sustain an invariable written law – the Constitution which mandates civil law and our response to it. The non-negotiable Constitution is our explicit gauge of right and wrong, applicable to all without special considerations for occupations such as politicians, sports stars or “insider” corporate criminals. Since Woodrow Wilson, we have descended into a Socialistic democracy (adaptable mob rule, adjustable laws and poll driven public opinions). All democracies, in which selective enforcement of law is rampant, are short lived, for they typically morph into oppressive tyrannies. </div>
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<div>Whenever laws are passed, under whatever form, if they do not represent the will of the majority of the people or their desires, then they represent oppression. America today has an oppressive government because it passes laws against the will of the people. Thus, we no longer have a Republic. A strong case can be made that America in the 21st century is an Empire, as was Britain in the 19th. Any government that would even consider an issue as ludicrous as hate crimes, the concept of policing thought, is in very serious jeopardy. </div>
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<div>Of the three branches of government, only the legislative branch is authorized to make law. Presidential executive orders have been unconstitutionally used to make law. The Judicial branch, the Supreme Court, is supposed to interpret the constitutionality of a law. Rather, they invent new interpretations never envisioned by the founding fathers. It is the duty of the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution as ratified by the states, not to invent preposterous meanings which were not originally intended by the authors. The judiciary makes law through changing precedents as well as by invention, neither of which are constitutionally authorized.</div>
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<div>The foregoing is from one of my articles.</div></td></tr>
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