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<blockquote data-quote="chiron" data-source="post: 1475518" data-attributes="member: 2528"><p><strong>Re: Anna Hazare arrested by Delhi police ahead of today's fast.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can make out a few parallels and those are enough to make worry me coz I've read a bit of history. As broadway mentioned "Democracy is just another man-made form of governance bound to the flaws of errors and deviance". It follows that a truly visionary, empathic and benovolent dictator could be considered better than a democracy but that has never worked in the past as that role is beyond the capacity of any human. So we are stuck with the flawed system of democracy as our best choice. And when democracy bows down to any person no matter how much integrity and sincerity that person has its never something to rejoice about.</p><p></p><p>Initially when all this debate started(with nehal's hazare threads etc) I was willing to ignore the fact that the movement was based on a person and the undemocratic manner in which the civil society members appointed themselves into the joint drafting commitee. Coz after all someone had to address the issue. But now I realize that when the intent is to improve the workings of democracy and establish ideals it was a wrong to ignore the basis of it just for practicality. If you think about it that way then bottom line is Anna Hazare is not squeaky clean because he has broken the rules of the country(notwithstanding his intentions which may have been truly pure).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chiron, post: 1475518, member: 2528"] [b]Re: Anna Hazare arrested by Delhi police ahead of today's fast.[/b] I can make out a few parallels and those are enough to make worry me coz I've read a bit of history. As broadway mentioned "Democracy is just another man-made form of governance bound to the flaws of errors and deviance". It follows that a truly visionary, empathic and benovolent dictator could be considered better than a democracy but that has never worked in the past as that role is beyond the capacity of any human. So we are stuck with the flawed system of democracy as our best choice. And when democracy bows down to any person no matter how much integrity and sincerity that person has its never something to rejoice about. Initially when all this debate started(with nehal's hazare threads etc) I was willing to ignore the fact that the movement was based on a person and the undemocratic manner in which the civil society members appointed themselves into the joint drafting commitee. Coz after all someone had to address the issue. But now I realize that when the intent is to improve the workings of democracy and establish ideals it was a wrong to ignore the basis of it just for practicality. If you think about it that way then bottom line is Anna Hazare is not squeaky clean because he has broken the rules of the country(notwithstanding his intentions which may have been truly pure). [/QUOTE]
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