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Importing and Exporting Democratic Ideals

by Niki Raapana, September 6, 2003

"According to news reports, the Bush administration has asked the Israeli and Italian governments to nominate a replacement for the current president of Syria... A country incapable of choosing a better president than George W. Bush has no business choosing a president for any other country." October 25, 2005 Dr. Roberts is John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

When the U.S. government describes their War against Iraq as a way to bring the Iraqi people "democracy on the move," what kind of democracy do they mean? To Americans, doesn't democracy mean freely elected representative government?

Maybe we have more in common with the Iraqis than we thought.

Appointed councils and appointed representatives for Neighborhood Watch are defined by U.S. Freedom Forces as Iraqis taking the first steps to freedom. If Iraqi Interim Councils are not "real" democracy but instead a foundation for democracy, then how does the U.S. explain the formulation of the same kinds of appointed citizen councils in the purportedly already democratic U.S.?

There are thousands of new Citizen's Advisory Councils creating policy across the United States. If appointed and selected councils means Iraq is "heading for a representative government," do appointed and selected councils in the U.S. mean we are heading for a dictatorship? It doesn't make sense why the U.S. would establish Soviet-Chinese styled councils to guide Iraq to American style democracy, unless we understand how the American's definition of democracy has completely changed.

What is this new meaning of U.S. democracy? And if it's so different for Iraq, is it also different for the U.S.?

U.S. law is changing so rapidly not even the socialists know what kind of government we have anymore. Americans debate the individual new laws in the press with many credible writers stressing the fascist elements of some of them, but Americans are missing the point. What is the driving force behind all the new police expansion laws and freedom-for-export operations? The most important question that leads to understanding the meaning for all the new laws is: What do they all have in common?

If the world governments have a common philosophy to support the new laws, shouldn't we know what that philosophy is?

Communitarianism is the new philosophy of the U.S. and U.N governments.

Under the communitarians, the definition of democracy changed into Participatory Democracy. The new definition eliminates the outdated definition that meant every citizen has a direct role in controlling their government.

Our old definition of democracy included everyone in the process. It provided us with anonymity in our opinions via secret voting; it also established laws that gave us full disclosure of government records and access to all government meetings. It ensured the right to petition for a redress of grievances, and assured every individual citizen had an important role in formulating new laws, under strict constitutional guidelines.

The communitarian definition stresses the need to "balance" outdated notions of what democracy means.

In participatory democracy there is no voting. Nobody has to go through the whole strain of electing representatives or casting ballots on Initiatives and new laws. In a rebuilt democratic community, citizens are selected or appointed to represent their neighbors on Councils. These representative councils take on the responsibility for shoring up the moral values of their neighbors and make sure only people who share their same values feel welcome to join. They never vote and pass new legislation by a two-thirds majority rule. This is how they're "more democratic," because appointed councils all have to agree to build consensus on plans and major political developments that affect the life of everyone in the neighborhood. It's called Rebuilding Community.

Communitarians are rebuilding the entire world under their more moral political structure. Rebuilding community is the goal of every new land management plan in the United States. It's the goal of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It's the goal of the United Nations. Rebuilding community is the #2 goal of Homeland Security (which includes the Pentagon's DARPA and TIA programs), and it's the basis for Neighborhood Watch, Operation TIPS, Freedom Corps, (see also Bush's January 29, 2002 State of the Union Address), AmericaCorps, Citizen Corps, and NATO Peacekeeping.

And just in case you're wondering how this affects you personally, volunteerism is an important part of rebuilding community, and, as President Bush told us on January 29, 2002, every American should take at least two years out of their life to volunteer.

Participatory democracy means you participate where the governing council tells you to participate.

Rebuilt communities are governed by appointed councils who direct and control all public and private resources, including humans. Select community participants gather all the neighborhood data necessary for the rebuilding, write the plans based on their "surveys," and then proceed to take over. Once the rebuilding and reinvention process is completed (by the year 2020-21?), every national constitution in the world will be required to comply with U.N. "regulations," and their citizens will be required to bend to the will of the omnipresent global, communitarian government.

Communitarian Law is the legal system for the emerging global government.

The United Nation's International Court at the Hague, Netherlands is the designated highest enforcement authority for all new international law. Queen Beatrix, presiding at the Peace Palace, accepted the Earth Charter from Green Cross International after it was endorsed by U.S. Mayors. The First Permanent War Crimes Tribunal was established in 2001. U.N. Local Agenda 21 is the blueprint for abolishing ALL nation's national laws and rebuilding the world into a complex system of international sustainable development laws. Regulated by new grant funded forces, Community Police & Communitarian Prosecutors successfully implement "local agenda 21" laws that establish national sustainable case precedents over national and state constitutional laws.

The Third Way is the political platform for the emerging global government.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, ex-President Clinton, and current President Bush are all proponents of The Third Way. Their goal is to re-define civil society from a communitarian perspective. Introduced to the U.S. via the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), (an organization of dubious origins) the Third Way claims to be the solution to the conflicting ideologies of the far left and the far right. (The Third Way was recently renamed the Third Sector By George Washington University public policy scholars.)

ACL Notes: Fabian scholars may have convinced all of us on the ridiculousness of American's "obsession" with the modern conspiracy theory, but the following anti-communitarian arguments remain undisputed after five months of scrutiny by over 250 communitarian scholars...(if ever they are successfully challenged we will happily post it here).

Five undisputed points about current world events:

1. There is a blueprint for rebuilding all nations under a one world government. It's called United Nation's Local Agenda 21.
United Nation's homepage
Agenda 21 and the 1992 Earth Summit Agreements
ACL overview of U.N.'s Local Agenda 21

2. The United States is changing its constitutional laws to follow the U.N.'s Local Agenda 21, 1992 Earth Summit "suggestions".
ACL overview of Communitarian Laws
Center for International Sustainable Development Laws
Sustainable Development Law and Policy, American University, Washington College of Law
ACL overview of U.S. Sustainable Development
The Wildlands Project, posted by CitizenReviewOnline

3. Neighborhood and rural plans in the U.S. are designed to further the goals of Agenda 21, using hidden clauses to establish new "legal" precedents, building a credible basis for global case law cited by "community" courts.
Community Prosecution/Justice
ACL overview of Neighborhood Local Agenda 21 Plans
Utah Rural Summit 2003... A participant's viewpoint on the Summit

4. Community Policing is a communitarian-Third Way idea created to enforce international sustainable development laws.
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
The Third Way and Community Policing
ACL overview of Community Policing

5. Iraq is being rebuilt as a communitarian nation.
ACL overview of Rebuilding Iraq
Asset Based Development for Iraq

For a well defined analysis of Washington's objectives and an good explanation of the Jacobin rhetoric in current use, (and Jacobin ties to the meaning behind exporting American values and "democracy"), read Professor Claes G. Ryn's The Ideology of American Empire, an article adapted from a chapter in his America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire.

Added November 5, 2005

Remarks by Stephen Hadley to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee National Summit 2005 White House Press Release, October 31, 2005:

"Earlier this month, speaking before the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush outlined the five principles on which our nation's strategy in the War on Terror is based. First, he said, "we're determined to prevent the attacks of terrorist networks before they occur." Second, "we're determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to outlaw regimes, and to their terrorist allies who would use them without hesitation." Third, "we're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes." Fourth, the President stated that "we're determined to deny the militants control of any nation, which they would use as a home base and a launching pad for terror."

There is little disagreement that America will be more secure if we continue successfully to fulfill these four principles. It is important to note that Israel will also benefit from our achievement of these aims.

The President's fifth principle, however, has drawn criticism from some circles. The President declared that "we're determined to deny the militants future recruits by replacing hatred and resentment with democracy and hope across the broader Middle East." Some deride this "freedom agenda" as idealistic and na ve. Some argue that although well-intentioned, the short-term costs exceed any potential long-term benefits from democratization in the Middle East. The President respectfully disagrees. He believes the freedom agenda is critical for both the United States and Israel. So, this afternoon I would like to discuss why the effort to spread freedom throughout the Muslim world will leave both the United States, and Israel, safer and more secure."