RE: [WDDM] Democracy rating

["Jim Powell" <autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za>]

Hi Hamid,

I am working on the change to Direct Democracy. Presentation to the Gauteng Province Executive of the Democratic Party in 2 hours (12h00).

The discrimination in favour of B lacks comes about to address the imbalance created during apartheid. The problem is that this has created a small number of super rich blacks. There is a push that the system should be changed to Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment to spread the wealth.

There needs to be a cut-off date and to stop discriminating against the young non-black South Africans who had nothing to do with Apartheid.

Regards

Jim Powell

From: Hamid Mohseni [esi1mohseni2(at)hotmail.com]
Sent: 05 Jun 2009 09:41 AM
To: World Direct Democracy
Subject: RE: [WDDM] Democracy rating

You don´t need corrupt leaders. Change your political system to direct democracy instead.

I don´t like the fact that South Africa discrimantes nonblack people. My brother and his family living there and suffer of this discrimination.
Thet are too old to immigrate to other countries.

Regards
Hamid
 

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From: autoinfo(at)acenet.co.za
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:02:35 +0200
Subject: RE: [WDDM] Democracy rating

Nice one Bruce J

Our current president had his over 700 charges of fraud dropped because there was a “political conversation” over the timing of the charges 2 weeks before the elections. The person who gave him the money was sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud and was released on unknown medical grounds 3 weeks before the elections. He was acquitted of rape charges when he had sex with the daughter of a late good friend. He then had a shower to reduce the likelihood of getting HIV. He has 3 wives and 19 children

Check out the site http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_cor-government-corruption . Iceland is the cleanest at #1 with a rating of 9.7, America is 17^th with a rating of 7.6, South Africa is 46^th with a rating of 4.5, Chad is at the bottom, 159th with a rating of 1.7. I do not know how they put the stats together.

Regards

Jim Powell South Africa

From: Bruce Eggum [bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com]
Sent: 05 Jun 2009 12:20 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: Re: [WDDM] Democracy rating

USA like some other country's on the list is not a democracy. It is a republic run by 565 representative politicians.
best government money can buy

Bruce Eggum
Gresham Wisconsin, USA

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:36 AM, <Joshua N Pritikin> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:00:30PM +0200, Jim Powell wrote:
> Is there a method where the level of democracy in a country can be measured
> or is there an organisation that does this?
>
> Is there a table where countries are ranked? I would expect that Switzerland
> would be close to the top and Mynamar (Burma) would be close to the bottom.

The Corruption Perceptions Index would seem to be highly correlated with
the level of democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

;-)