When I heard the U.S. secret torture camp in that particular country of Poland; came to my mind how Hitler used that country too against the Jewish people in genocidal Second World War. The striking thing about Poland is that it is only new for “Western Democracy” after being under the influence of defunct Soviet Union iron curtain communist rule. Polish people must have been delusional that the difference between American and Soviet's Gulag is a name change: they both promise utopian world if you embrace their ideology. An ideology based on intimidation, torture, injustice, inequality only survive as long as people open their eyes and see how rotten the system is. Thankfully though, one that advocate hard work shouldn’t be rewarded evaporated in to thin air as Gorbachev gasped his last breath to save a socialist system through perestroika and glasnost without avail. Now we have neo-liberalism which advocates few people to control the world resources without the possibility of hard working people paid a living wage. One simple example of that is the fact the gap between two full time employees: the worker on customer service at Wal-Mart makes $18,000 (eighteen thousand dollars) and on the other hand a C.E.O of that company makes $27,000,000 (twenty seven million dollars). According to neo-liberals it is acceptable for companies to decide who receive what and fairness has nothing to do with it. Of course most Americans accepted that without question. America’s democracy in America a is thin democracy, as Frances Moore Lappé calls it.
"Contemporary social critics see America divided—left versus right, conservative versus liberal, religious versus secular. I disagree and even find these framings destructive. They deflect us from the most critical and perhaps the only division we have to worry about.
It is that between those who believe in democracy—honest dialogue, basic fairness, mutual respect, inclusivity, and reciprocal responsibilities—and those who do not. In the latter category are those willing to put ends over means, violating these core principles in pursuit of an ultimate goal.
Antidemocrats here or abroad include those willing to demonize opponents and even to kill innocent people in pursuit of political power, an idealized future, or a superior afterlife.
At home they include members of our own government who allow illegal detention and torture of captives, arm known tyrants, meet secretly with private interests to hash out the public’s business, bar congressional colleagues from hearing rooms, interfere with voting by citizens likely to disagree with them, remove vital information from government Web sites, disguise government propaganda as real news, and employ Orwellian labels to mislead us.2
All are justified by perpetrators as necessary tactics to move us to their idealized future."
Democracy in America is thin, it also have corrupting other nations in the case of countries such as Poland. The fact Poland is taking prisoners for military and economic assistance from the U.S. regardless of the prisoner’s mistreatment is a very disheartening to say the list. Instead of helping countries cultivate a rule of law or abstaining from corrupting them Bush and his gangs sawing a reversal of building trust between the rulers and the ruled. By so doing they made a mockery of a rule of law, trust and transparency.
"Contemporary social critics see America divided—left versus right, conservative versus liberal, religious versus secular. I disagree and even find these framings destructive. They deflect us from the most critical and perhaps the only division we have to worry about.
It is that between those who believe in democracy—honest dialogue, basic fairness, mutual respect, inclusivity, and reciprocal responsibilities—and those who do not. In the latter category are those willing to put ends over means, violating these core principles in pursuit of an ultimate goal.
Antidemocrats here or abroad include those willing to demonize opponents and even to kill innocent people in pursuit of political power, an idealized future, or a superior afterlife.
At home they include members of our own government who allow illegal detention and torture of captives, arm known tyrants, meet secretly with private interests to hash out the public’s business, bar congressional colleagues from hearing rooms, interfere with voting by citizens likely to disagree with them, remove vital information from government Web sites, disguise government propaganda as real news, and employ Orwellian labels to mislead us.2
All are justified by perpetrators as necessary tactics to move us to their idealized future."
Democracy in America is thin, it also have corrupting other nations in the case of countries such as Poland. The fact Poland is taking prisoners for military and economic assistance from the U.S. regardless of the prisoner’s mistreatment is a very disheartening to say the list. Instead of helping countries cultivate a rule of law or abstaining from corrupting them Bush and his gangs sawing a reversal of building trust between the rulers and the ruled. By so doing they made a mockery of a rule of law, trust and transparency.
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