{news} Richard Duffee's letter in the Norwalk Hour

[Richard Duffee]

Amazing! They didn't change a word! What is this, respect? After the
treatment we've received for the last three months, this is too weird to
comprehend.
Richard

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM, David Bedell <dbedellgreen at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Richard's letter was published in the Norwalk Hour on Tuesday, Oct 28.  The
> same issue had his entry in the Hour's voter guide.
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> http://www.thehour.com/story/458313
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>        Governments cannot be run in secrecy; citizens must seek truth
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> Governments cannot be run in secrecy; citizens must seek truth
>        To the Editor:
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> Asked on Sunday what planks of the Republican platform he disagreed
> with, Christopher Shays replied that the platforms of the Democrats and
> Republicans don't mean much. On Monday I asked him what he meant. He
> replied that platforms are made up by a committee composed of the
> representatives from each state and that they're not terribly important
> in actual policy formation.
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> This truthful statement indicates the most serious structural flaw of
> our government. When citizens cannot trust that party platforms express
> what party leaders actually intend to do, we have nothing better to
> rely on for that knowledge. The Republicans and Democrats are telling
> us to cast our votes on the basis of faith in them, not knowledge or
> rationality.
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> When we must vote on the basis of ignorance, we do not live in a
> functioning republic, but in an oligarchy.
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> The policies the government will actually pursue under either major
> party are fundamentally secrets among the party leaders. What they tell
> us is merely what they think it convenient for us to hear.
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> So long as we continue our imperial ambitions we must expect to be kept
> in the dark. Republics require a modicum of honesty, tolerance, and
> openness, while empires -- which are merely systems of slavery at a
> distance -- must always be ruled by a mystifying and degrading
> combination of secrecy, fraud, and violence. Any republic that attempts
> to rule an empire deteriorates into rule by the greediest and cruelest.
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> If we do not reclaim our responsibilities as citizens, ever deeper forms of
> subjugation await us.
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> Richard Duffee
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> Green Party Candidate for Congress, 4th district Ct.
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