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From: jad@harpo.UUCP (jad)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: participative democracy
Message-ID: <2285@harpo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 12:40:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 12:40:20 1984
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        Virtually all peoples of all nations have always been dominated by 

     individuals or cliques which obtained power and wealth because they were

     obsessed with obtaining power and wealth. This power actually is the

     aggregation of the freedom they usurped from each member of the society.

     This wealth actually is the sum of the earnings they stole from each

     member of the society. 

        The people of The United States have always been the subjects of an

     oligarchy (a government controlled by a few people). If they were per-

     mitted a genuine democracy, the malignant cancer that afflicts our society

     would fade in the wake of a sweeping transformation bringing real hope

     and exhilarating possibilities for our people and for the peoples of

     the world. 

        I am appealing to those who are already convinced that our Earth 

     and it's populations are in grave trouble --- to those who are already
                                               
     convinced that a direct, true democracy would replace the corrupt

     politicians' greed with the people's interests in conducting the affairs

     of a nation belonging to it's people; the affairs of a world belonging

     to everyone. Please offer suggestions about how to initiate an experi-

     mental participative democracy on The Net.


                                             John DiNardo