Purple fingers for Freedom.

http://www.purplefingerforfreedom.org/BennettLetter.htm

Dear Sir or Madam:

This has been a long year for the citizens of Iraq and for our troops in the armed forces. Headlines, news-stories, and politicians have portrayed the situation in Iraq as violent, terror-ridden, and bloody. All of that is true: such is the nature of war; but also, such is the nature of a burgeoning democracy. Indeed, our own Founding was far from bloodless.

Nevertheless, there has been another story in Iraq that has unfolded over the past year, despite the violence, despite the terrorism?it is the story of a brave people standing up for themselves, with our help, to build a democracy?the first Arab democracy in the Middle East. While some have discounted this story, it is a fact. In January?and again in October?millions of Iraqis braved threats of attack from terrorists and stood up on behalf of democracy, casting their votes in a process that will culminate in a third election next week, Dec. 15 th.

If there has been one, strong signal and image of those brave efforts, it has been the purple, ink stain on every voting Iraqi?s finger?proving they voted. Those ink stained fingers have been raised with pride in January and October; and we want them raised with pride again next week, as they stand up for freedom and elections in their new democracy.

Abraham Lincoln said of our Declaration of Independence that it contained ?an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.? The Iraqis are voting for candidates in their parliament, under their new constitution?as they, too, take this large step toward equality, life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness impossible for them over the past generation, impossible for them even three years ago.

With our troops, with our allies, and with the brave Iraqis, we look forward to a new birth of freedom in Iraq; and want to do what we can to show our soldiers, our allies, and?most importantly?the Iraqis, that we stand with them as they stand for themselves.

Starting on Monday, December 12 th, I?and tens of thousands of others across America?will be marking my right index finger with purple ink to show those in Iraq we support them. Based on suggestions from listeners on my nationally syndicated radio show, I?and we?are asking you (to the degree physically feasible) to make available an ink pad or marker at your check-out counters for your customers, to mark their fingers with ink as they leave your store.

Just as I believe in a politics of liberty, I also believe in an economy based on free market principles. Making an ink pad available for your customers who would like to show their support for those principles in your stores through December 15 th is what I am asking, in support of that politics and that economy. You may wish to alert your local media of your doing this, for added publicity of the cause outlined above, and your support of it.

Let us all look forward to a day when all men, women, and children can live in freedom. Until then, let us do what we can for those that we can.

For more information, you can go to www.purplefingerforfreedom.org

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I for one will be sporting the purple V from the 12th to the 15th.

We aren't spreading freedom, we are spreading UN slavery and our founding fathers of America HATED DEMOCRACY

Is America a Republic or a Democracy?

I know it as a Republic…but I’m told by leaders and when I was in school and on my Nightly News today….that this is a Democracy.

But why would I think this was a Republic and not a Democracy?
Certainly the ideas of democracy dwell within a Republic…but the ideas of a Republic do not dwell within a Democracy. ( or maybe I don’t understand )

Where has this confusion come from? Why do some of us have a problem with this…can’t we all just get along…

but


Has the Definition of Democracy been changed over the years?

Has the Definition of Democracy been changed over the years?

- Democracy
A goverment of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of 'direct' expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,... without restraint or regard to consequences.
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Army Training Manual Concerning Citizenship 1928

And the Words of old wisdom (FEDERALIST PAPERS)
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.