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Topic: Messianic democracy

	CM2006 Article: Mitropoulos & Neilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Democracy finds its limit in what it is. In other words, as was the case for socialism during the Soviet era, democracy comes to be so incarnated in its present condition that it is no longer possible to recuperate the symbolic order once evoked by the word.
		To cut the knot of democracy, we would argue, is neither to fall back on a totalitarianism of the state nor to propose, as is frequent in assertions of a ‘democratic deficit’, that the current conditions of democracies result from an insufficiency.
		Therefore, alongside the democracy of the market—and in relation to European premonitions of a globally extended constitution and citizenship—there is the democracy of the border.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Articles/neilson.htm (3533 words)

	Democracy vs. Demography
		Their strength is in the discourse, language and myths that grant legitimacy to the regime, and the "doves" of Labor and Yahad share that with the messianic zealots.
		But in the debate between democracy and demography the zealots of Yesha have the upper hand, and it is possible that in a "democratic" struggle they will win a majority in the referendum, especially if only the votes of the Jews are counted.
		That is the power of the Yesha Council and the messianic zealots in the public debate, despite their numerical weakness: the agreement between "doves" and "hawks" that the Land belongs to "us," the Jews, and the only relevant nation to decide on the fate of the Land is the Jewish nation.
	www.democracymeansyou.com /articles/articlepf.php?ID=289 (842 words)

	II. Champion Aspirations for Human Dignity
		Democracy has made further advances in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, with peaceful transfers of power; growth in independent judiciaries and the rule of law; improved election practices; and expanding political and economic rights.
		Because democracies are the most responsible members of the international system, promoting democracy is the most effective long-term measure for strengthening international stability; reducing regional conflicts; countering terrorism and terror-supporting extremism; and extending peace and prosperity.
		Effective democracy also requires institutions that can protect individual liberty and ensure that the government is responsive and accountable to its citizens.
	www.whitehouse.gov /nsc/nss/2006/sectionII.html (2181 words)

	Attention Deficit Democracy
		Attention Deficit Democracy begets a government that is nominally democratic—in which elections are boisterous events accompanied by torrents of deceptive ads and mass rallies.
		President George W. Bush calls democracy "the most honorable form of government ever devised by man."5 Americans are taught that the sum of American democracy is vastly greater than its parts.
		Democracy is commonly used to describe a political system that involves regular elections, opportunities for citizen involvement, and purported limits on government power.
	www.strike-the-root.com /61/lfb/lfb2.html (3933 words)

	Judaism and Democracy: The Reality
		Quite to the contrary, the Jewish vision of the messianic world order is one in which all nations recognize the sovereignty of God but retain their separate national and perhaps even religious characteristics,if monotheistic.
		With regard to democracy and pluralism, then, the relationship between Judaism and democracy is a qualified positive.
		The relationship between Judaism and democracy has to be judged whole, not just in connection with specific religious laws, and it must be judged in light of this classical and continuing division of powers.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles2/jud-democ.htm (2186 words)

	Wolfish Wilsonians \| The New America Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The values of democracy and law-governed freedom that the United States represents are of inestimable importance and are close to being eternal.
		Furthermore, even states that are genuine democracies in terms of institutions and elections may perpetrate human rights abuses in other nations that are as bad as or even worse than those of some authoritarian states.
		The central reason why this has occurred is that messianic internationalism not only appeals to many contemporary liberals, but also is deeply rooted in the American civic nationalist tradition and strengthened by certain failings in the contemporary study of political science and international relations.
	www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2006/wolfish_wilsonians (5872 words)

	The Messianic Times \| World's leading international Messianic Jewish newspaper
		The weekend festival, attended by an estimated 15,000, is held on the shores of Lake Tiberius (known in the Bible as the Sea of Galilee), features music, camping and New Age activities.
		A number of Messianic ministries and congregations set up tents on the festival grounds where attendees were invited to visit, share meals and...
		Messianic recording artist Jonathan Settel closed out the conference with a free concert that was open to the community.
	www.messianictimes.com (621 words)

	Art7
		O Democracy, o new messianic prayer currently running on the lips of the multitudes invoked as some merciful deity to hasten the coming of some long-desired deliverance.
		Silly me. I who thought that inherent in the very notion of democracy is the assertion that it is the fruit of toil and sacrifice, that it is a thing we earn and build ourselves in response to some internal yearning, not something delivered upon request.
		As such, the intellectual and cultural tools needed to build the foundation for democracy are absent, and their creation in modes and language that could be appreciated by the Iraqi people will take decades, like all enterprises seeking to influence and alter human thought.
	www.amarji.org /art_ess/Articles/Art2003/art7.htm (890 words)

	White Supremacy, Manifest Destiny, and Contemporary Militarism, by Steve Martinot
		Yet sovereignty is the necessary precondition for democracy; if democracy signifies a people's ability to determine their own destiny, they have to be sovereign in that destiny first in order to determine it.
		The purpose of bringing democracy and freedom to the land was seen not as a civilizing mission toward its present inhabitants, but a settlement of open land devoid of prior societies by white people who would implant white civilization on the land through their own persons.
		If this represents a messianism of democracy, it is a white messianism, revealing in its unfolding the structure of white supremacy, where whiteness remains the sign of dominion over others.
	pages.prodigy.net /gmoses/nvusa/martinot003.htm (3601 words)

	reading time : messianic democracy 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This call is demanded now by the messianic and demands a response on our part.
		This democracy to come that threatens unity, community and identity by reason of their oppression, marginalization and exclusion of the other, who is wholly other.
		The possibility of this impossibility of a democracy to come is what deconstruction is all about.
	emsah.uq.edu.au /readingtime/democracy1.htm (263 words)

	Talmon: The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the case of totalitarian democracy, this state is precisely defined, and is treated as a matter of immediate urgency, a challenge for direct action, an imminent event.
		The problem that arises for totalitarian democracy, and which is one of the main subjects of this study, may be called the paradox of freedom.
		Naive and inexperienced in the working of democracy, the theorists on the eve of the Revolution were unable to regard the strains and stresses, the conflicts and struggles of a parliamentary democratic regime as ordinary things, which need not frighten anybody with the spectre of immediate ruin and confusion.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/PS/Finley/PS425/reading/Talmon.html (21252 words)

	Killing in the Name of Democracy - by James Bovard
		During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. military interventions in Latin America were routinely portrayed as "missions to establish democracy." The U.S. military sometimes served as a collection agency for American corporations or banks that had made unwise investments or loans in politically unstable foreign lands.
		Especially with the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983, all limits were lifted on the number of democratic cons that the U.S. government could finance abroad.
		James Bovard is the author of the just-released Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, and Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/bovard.php?articleid=8448 (1023 words)

	THE VOICE OF RUSSIA [Tid-Bits of the Week ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is democracy, not WMD, that he was talking of, at the press conference, and circus clowns have a name - back somersault - for what the journalists were privileged to see.
		His messianic predecessor Woodrow Wilson and revolutionary spirit Leon Trotsky were the first to call for the export of ideas.
		The collective history and mentality of one and a half billion Moslems determine the Islamic view of democracy, and all attempts to saddle the Moslems with foreign laws and foreign ideology are doomed to failure.
	www.vor.ru /English/Exclusives/excl_next850_eng.html (509 words)

	The Oxymoron of 'Illiberal Democracy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term "illiberal democracy," advanced by some as an acceptable model for future change in many parts of the Middle East, is, in truth, an oxymoron.
		Nor can they be at peace with the rest of the world, a fact that makes their appearance quite problematic for many of their neighbors and for the world at large.
		As an illiberal democracy, the Islamic Republic poses a serious challenge to another cherished notion, namely that democracies tend to seek a peaceful resolutions to their conflicts with the outside world.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/fellows/abdulhamid20040814.htm (799 words)

	Arrogant Bush Administration Policies Create Anti-U.S. Sentiment
		Unfortunately, the messianic zeal of some evangelical Christians to convert others began being misdirected to infuse official U.S. foreign policy beginning in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War at the turn of the last century.
		Second, the founders were more concerned, correctly, about individual rights and liberty and would view the modern focus on the majoritarian rule of pure democracy as tyrannical and hence dangerous to those liberties.
		Despite its idealistic and messianic Wilsonian rhetoric throughout the years, the U.S. government has routinely propped up despots in the Islamic world that were perceived as friendly to U.S. interests.
	www.progress.org /2005/eland25.htm (836 words)

	Congo, Republic of the
		There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion.
		While the generally amicable relations among religions in society contributed to religious freedom, the close link between certain self-proclaimed messianic groups and opposition political movements was a source of tension during the civil war period from 1997 to 2001.
		Mystical or messianic practices (particularly among the ethnic Lari population in the Pool region) have been associated with opposition political movements, including some elements of the armed insurrection in the southern part of the country from 1998 to 2001.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51463.htm (946 words)

	Appeal for the release of Tariq Aziz
		The straussians are not messianic in their esoteric, true ideas, but they use religious currents in their exoteric discourse, for religion is, as we have noted, crucial for the cohesion of society and therefore it is a strong base for politics.
		The implicit link to this really existing messianism or millenarism of the masses and the eschatology of the President himself as messianic leader on the one hand, and neocon thought on the other can be found in the apocalyptic tone of their writing.
		Maybe against rightwing American messianism and Islamic fundamentalism there is a third way, an alternative to abrahamic messianisms, the other-globalist movement as messianic instance; a movement towards ‘a justice to come’, under the aegis of an international body (now the United nations).
	www.brusselstribunal.org /Messianism.htm (6657 words)

	Messianic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up messianic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Messianic in the context of Judaism may refer to someone who believes in (the):
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Messianic (93 words)

	Legendary Times Books :: Current Affairs
		Michel Chossudovsky blows away the smokescreen, put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an "intelligence failure," and an attack on America by "Islamic terrorrists." Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.
		James Bovard, author of the classic Lost Rights, aptly diagnoses a national malady, "Attention Deficit Democracy," characterized by a citizenry indifferent to facts and increasingly incapable of judging when their rights and liberties are being destroyed.
		Attention Deficit Democracy summons Americans back to the standards of the Founding Fathers and urges citizens to become informed and vigilant - and to once again become the most important check against the abuse of power.
	www.legendarytimesbooks.com /home.php?cat=33 (1980 words)

	The Radical Academy Libertarian Books
		Attention Deficit Democracy is the winner of the March 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty.
		Americans are taught that the sum of American democracy is vastly greater than its parts.
		The more people who believe democracy is failsafe, the more likely it will fail.
	radicalacademy.com /bookstorelibertarianes13.htm (4122 words)

	American Freedom: Can it Shed Its Enlightenment Roots? , TCRNews2.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The court's ruling, the first of its kind in the country, overturned a lower court ruling that dismissed a case against the Pledge brought by the father of a school girl.
		Political parties must exist in a democracy, and that is fine, but the common good, rooted in the moral principles of the common law must be the presupposition of true "freedom" (Jn 8:32).
		Democracy and radicalized democracy may be very different things.
	www.tcrnews2.com /America.html (2731 words)

	The Harvest of Messianic Foreign Policy: Anti-U.S. Radical Islam
		This bi-partisan consensus on spreading democracy at gunpoint would have mortified the nation’s founders.
		The United States has made a great error in conducting a messianic, albeit often hypocritical, campaign to convert the world to “democratic” government using an interventionist foreign policy.
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	www.commondreams.org /views05/0524-30.htm (907 words)

	Operation Founding Fathers by James Bovard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy efforts, it is worthwhile to review the opportunism with respect to representative government in Iraq.
		Ghassan Atiyyah, director of the Baghdad-based Iraq Foundation for Development and Democracy, declared that Allawi’s 15 percent final election result (compared with his poll numbers of 3 percent or 4 percent before the vote) “was due to American manipulation of the election.
		James Bovard [send him mail] is the author of the just-released Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, and Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil.
	www.lewrockwell.com /bovard/bovard36.html (1577 words)

	(DV) Street: "To All Who Wear the Uniform"
		Still, the president should be reminded that democracy is not contingent on the people being correct in its policy views.
		With his miserable Iraq policy revealed as an historic and monumental crime and fiasco, the "messianic militarist" (Ralph Nader's description of Bush in 2004) president is assaulting the most valuable strands of the American political tradition.
		Beneath it all lurks the fateful question of whether the world's most powerful nation is going to follow the enlightened path of popular government and democracy or the authoritarian trail of imperial militarism and divine right.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Dec05/Street1203.htm (1215 words)

	The Messianic Times \| Featured Article
		Several Israeli Messianic leaders, including Chuck Cohen, Eliahu Ben Haim and Lance Lambert, had actually urged prayer for a Hamas landslide victory at the annual “Intercessors for Israel” conference held in mid-January in Jerusalem.
		Therefore, a solid Hamas victory would serve to confirm growing Israeli convictions that their supposed “peace partners” remain fierce adversaries who are devoted to Israel’s ultimate destruction.
		The Messianic leaders also noted that lasting peace is only found in Yeshua, Israel’s anointed Messiah, whose light shines ever brighter as the days grow decidedly darker.
	www.messianictimes.com /DisplayArticle.php?ID=41 (986 words)

	Attention Deficit Democracy (1403971080) BOVARD - Palgrave Macmillan
		James Bovard diagnoses a national malady called "Attention Deficit Democracy," characterized by a citizenry that seems to be paying less attention to facts, and is less capable of judging when their rights and liberties are under attack.
		The dry wit is vintage Bovard, and is plentiful throughout Attention Deficit Democracy.
		James Bovard's Attention Deficit Democracy is an engaging, articulate, and passionate expose of one of the major causes of America's loss of liberty, the American people's apathy, ignorance, and collusion with the power-grabbers.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403971080 (2330 words)

	American Democracy Indicted
		The trouble with democracy is that it provides the illusion that the government is the people, and so all that is needed is an election to guarantee the government will have good intentions and benevolent policy.
		In the name of democracy, wars are waged, and in the name of those wars, deception becomes just another policy tool.
		Nowhere is the public acquiescence to political criminality uglier, and nowhere is the author more compelling and damning in his case against modern American democracy, than in the new tolerance people have towards torture as acceptable policy.
	www.fff.org /freedom/fd0604f.asp (2639 words)

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