#racy

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I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instigated by Syrian and other agents. As the (literally) extorted confession unfolds, names begin to be named. Once a fellow-conspirator is identified, guards come to his seat and haul him from the room. The reclining Saddam, meanwhile, lights a large cigar and contentedly scans his dossiers. The sickness of fear in the room is such that men begin to crack up and weep, rising to their feet to shout hysterical praise, even love, for the leader. Inexorably, though, the cull continues, and faces and bodies go slack as their owners are pinioned and led away. When it is over, about half the committee members are left, moaning with relief and heaving with ardent love for the boss. (In an accompanying sequel, which I have not seen, they were apparently required to go into the yard outside and shoot the other half, thus sealing the pact with Saddam. I am not sure that even Beria or Himmler would have had the nerve and ingenuity and cruelty to come up with that.)


Christopher Hitchens


#ba-athism #ba-athist-iraq #beria #conspiracy #cull

Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalism Akuku Mach Pep, Democracy on Trial


Akuku Mach Pep


#dictatorship #tribalism #dictatorship

Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.


R. Alan Woods


#r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #r-alan-woods

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?


Arthur Conan Doyle


#consistency #details #dramatic-effect #facts #sherlock-holmes

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.


John Adams


#political-philosophy #suicide #political-philosophy

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.


King Abdullah II


#broad #class #coming #democracy #democratic

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.


Edward Albee


#always #anything #democracy #deserve #end

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.


Madeleine Albright


#democracy #disease #fight #freedom #intimidated

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.


Madeleine Albright


#america #because #being #came #czechoslovakia

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.


Madeleine Albright


#children #czechoslovakia #democracy #europe #free