Hi Jim,
Re: democracy has been dead for 20 yrs, agreed
On September 18, 1980, George Herbert Walker Bush, a private citizen and candidate for Vice-President, stepped off a jet in Paris, France and attended a meeting with representatives of the Revolutionary Islamic government of Iran. Bush negotiated a deal whereby the incoming Reagan Administration, if elected, would commence a trade in arms with the sworn enemies of the United States, the Mullahs of Tehran. This was the early phase of the Iran-Contra Affair. As part of the bargain, the mullahs agreed to continue the hostage crisis in Tehran in order to embarrass the Carter Administration and make it look weak and ineffectual in the eyes of the American electorate. In this, Bush was completely successful.
It should be noted that Bush's private diplomacy, heinous as it was to offer our sworn enemies arms, was more than that. It was a violation of the Baker Act which prohibits any private citizen of the United States from engaging in foreign policy negotiation on behalf of the nation. The Baker Act clearly declares this to be an act of treason.
Was Bush ever prosecuted for this treason? Of course not.
Not only is Democracy dead, but our Founding Father's notion of a representative Republic is now an endangered species.
What we have now is a plutocracy, wherein might makes right and morality and ethics are no longer a concern of the leadership. Which they intend to give to America.......... good and hard.
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