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Dear Mr.Padmanabhan,
to set up the platform you propose is surely
useful, but it can only become yet another discussion channel without any real
impact on concrete political systems. A transformation into true democracy must
be enforced in communes, villages, towns, regions and states by local
people. There is no other way.
Sincerely,
Jiri Polak
----- Original Message -----
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:53
PM
Subject: [WDDM] Re :[WDDM] What is the
AIM of WDDM?
Mr. Jiri Polak,
You have said that - "....it is extremely
difficult for DD organisations to compete with established parties which have
created all sorts of obstacles to prevent competition."
Setting up a
True Democracy Platform (web-based to start with) would bypass the
political parties and present an alternative method for the people to put
up candidates for elections in an organized way.
In effect it would be
splicing open the party-oriented election system and getting into the
parliament using the existing electoral procedures. Kindly go through the
forum discussion on 'True Democracy web platform", if you haven't done fully:
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?23,641,641#msg-641
There
should be no legal difficulty either, since it would only be a association of
people promoting a particular idea. It would be non-violent and perfectly
constitutional.
The only difficulty could be the cost to set up the
global website. If many people are convinced, then raising resource for it
should be possible.
I feel that there are a large number of people who
would like the system to be freed from the clutches of political parties,
presently considered as a necessary evil for electoral
purpose.
Sincerely,
Vijayaraghavan P
On Tue, 28
Apr 2009 09:39:06 0200 wddm@world-wide-democracy.net wrote
Dear
Mr.Padmanabha,
both strategies (extraparliamentary pressure and
efforts
to reach parliament using existing procedures) can and should be used at
the same time. But it is extremely difficult for DD organisations to
compete
with established parties which have created all sorts of obstacles
to prevent
competition. The current systems are illegal and criminal
because they have been
put in place without any mandate from the citizens.
Therefore it is legitimate
to fight against them by any means except to
physically hurt people. Should we
rely on parliamentary procedures only,
we could wait hundred years. Besides, to
only participate in elections
means legitimizing the existing oligarchic
systems. If "all power comes
from the people" as the myth says, then the people
is free to do anything
to change the system. The only problem is to
mobilize "ordinary
people" and make them stop behaving like
sheep.
Sincerely,
Jiri Polak
----- Original Message -----
From:
Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:31
PM
Subject: [WDDM] Re :[WDDM]
What is the
AIM of WDDM?
Mr. Jiri Polak,You have mentioned in your
reply while
describing the actions needed to enforce a
referendum - "Try to put a DD
person into Parliament...". This, I feel,
should be the central aim.
If a strategy is devised to achieve this then
all other things
like - attracting the man on the street and
enforcing a referendum
for making amends to the constitution become
easier. If this core
strategy is not there then it is difficult to
convince people about the
practicability of other actions.This is why I
feel that a 'True
Democracy web platform' should first be set up that will
lead on to putting DD
persons into the parliament by directly competing
with political parties
during elections.Vijayaraghavan POn Mon, 27 Apr
2009 16:54:34 0200 wddm@world-wide-democracy.net wroteHello,there
are
many good ideas on the Forum, but how to realize them? In Czech
Republic,
in theory, we have a clear strategy: The basic principle is that
it is the
people, not party politicians, who alone are entitled to write
and adopt a
Constitution establishing a political system. If you let party
politicians
to do that - as the case has been everywhere - they will put
in place a
. . . . . .
.
.
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