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    Democracy: the Con of the Century
    Democracy: the Con of the Century
    Democracy: the Con of the Century
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    Democracy: the Con of the Century

    By G.M Solon

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    Solons merit is his insight into our system of government and his ability to strip away the programming and false culture that bedevils our freedom. While Solon is well educated and well read, it is the emphasis on thinking based in relation to experience and not on the opinion of others that is crucial to any kind of liberation. Solon has never been involved in party politics and is not pushing anybodys agenda or promoting revolution. He is the ordinary man in the street who sees what he should be subject to. Political change, however, is necessary if we are to gain most from our society. That change is the change to mass consent and not the dictatorship we have at present or in any of its guises that a power group may wish to manufacture.

    What is democracy? Why are we conned into believing we have democracy when we dont? What tyrannies are going on and have gone on are addressed and explained.

    If you are fed up with the political system and the lying incompetent politicians, if you feel abused by the law, legal system, and the arms of government, you are not alone but a part of the majority. If you want to clarify why that is so along with where hope lies in the future, then read this book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateNov 15, 2012
    ISBN9781477231463
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      Democracy - G.M Solon

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      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/09/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-3145-6 (sc)

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Folly

      What is Democracy?

      Word Abuse and Statistics

      Deception by Politicians

      One Vote Every Five Years

      Member of Parliament Competence

      Current Voting Choice

      Learned Helplessness

      Party Politics

      Justice

      Justice System

      The Laws: A Money Making Machine

      Judicial Misconduct

      Golden Rules of Advocacy

      Judicial Accountability

      Complex Systems and the Law

      Suggestion

      The Crowd

      Power Lust

      Dependency

      Poodle Blair and Empire

      The Power Elite

      War

      Corporatism

      Mad Madness

      Regulations

      An Ending for a Beginning

      Bibliography with Comments

      Endnotes

      Dedicated to

      Those who want the Freedom to choose,

      And not to be wilfully abused.

      Thanks to

      My wife and son for typing and proof reading the manuscript. For also having to endure the trials and tribulation that led to the realisations in this book.

      Introduction

      The essence of this book is in the first two chapters: what Democracy is, and that we don’t have it.

      It could have been left there for readers, by thinking for themselves, to discover the rest. The rest of, and bulk, of the book explains the tyrannies that are and have gone on. Tyrannies are large—such as the Invasion of Iraq—and small ‘pestering, fine deceits, such as the confused signage on parking plates. I have included a range of abuses.

      To my knowledge there have only ever been two real democracies in our world: the original, in ancient Greece c500BC, set up by Solon; and the other in Switzerland set up about 150 years ago and is on-going. By looking at Switzerland, one can judge what is and is not working in practice. What jumps out there is Corporate influence. This is not surprising, as Corporatism did not really exist at the inception of democracy in Switzerland, but has crept up on it. This brings us to some of the shortcomings of this book.

      All political systems are culturally, philosophically and morally based, and whilst this book crosses over these issues, it does not discuss them per se. Democracy is a practical system to prevent tyrannies. However, what a tyranny is, is not always obvious.

      Further shortcomings of this book, as well as of any fixed systems, arise from the three major factors that apply to almost any real world measure: PEOPLE, PLACE & TIME, with cultural background/ethos coming in on their coat tails. Any political system must have the flexibility to adjust to the above 3 factors. If we look to America’s political founding fathers we see that they were well aware of how politics can become corrupt; so they set up the Bill of Rights to protect against it. But it strikes me that the Bill of Rights is an almost out of touch and defunct document today.

      This book does not address how a country adopts the essential principles of People Power and accountability, or how to elaborate on these principles to suit its society. Setting up a Democratic system is not touched upon in this book, only some of the problems to overcome and a system that protects against tyranny are dealt with.

      This book is short, as are the chapters, so the message does not get lost under data. To argue every issue that is raised is an encyclopaedic work. Your intuition and thinking powers can take you there. Where there is affirmation there is negation; in other words, there is no end to argument. One can not live life on that basis of intellect alone and this book is not written on that basis alone either.

      At the risk of being repetitive, but due to a concern that the essence of this book will be lost under the mass of words: the first two chapters, whilst basic, are all important.

      I would ask one more indulgence of the reader. Please look for the meaning behind my words, or, as one of our greatest linguistic philosophers, Bertrand Russell, put it, ‘words are transparencies’.

      G.M. Solon

      Cambridgeshire 2012-03-21

      PART I

      Folly

      Every day we are told we live in a democracy. We have been told it by our parents, our siblings, our peers, our grandparents, our teachers, our politicians. The BBC website declares Democracy in Action. All the news channels repeat it in some report or other every day. Books argue its wonderments and numerous universities have courses containing large programmes on it.

      There is just one problem: WE DO NOT HAVE DEMOCRACY. What we have in Britain¹ is Representative Government and that is something very, very different.

      What is Democracy?

      We need to take a look at its origin with the Ancient Greeks who had been under the domination of one tyrant after the other, who had stolen their wealth and oppressed the populace, time after time. Needless to say, they were fed up.

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