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| Europe |
| Attention, Europe. Here is a model for your New constitution. |
| 2005-06-21 |
| The Iraqis are writing their new constitution. It seems by some indications to be the *most* democratic constitution ever written. Right now, all over Iraq, people of good intent are holding public seminars, meetings, conferences, and hosting international constitutional experts, all with this one objective in mind. To *understand*, *appreciate*, and to make their voices known to the constitutional convention, what their needs, desires and ideas are for this one document. This piece of paper. When this document is created, I will read it. I suspect that it will be brief. That it will define a limited government that serves all of the people. That it emphasizes the precious rights and liberties that government may not infringe. And that the Iraqi people will be so proud of it, that they will carry a copy of it with them wherever they go, and translate it to other languages, so that other nations may see what they, the Iraqi people, have done. European leaders will read this constitution with shock and fear. Shock that it is a document of The People and not of the elite. Fear that The People of Europe may embrace it as their own, and demand a constitutional Europe based on a similar, democratic construction. Fear that it will be a Manifesto for democratic change in Europe, heralding the fall of the old, corrupt regimes and the rise of government by, of, and for The People. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Heh. Go for it, Iraq! :-D May the Force be with you. (As the Farce is with Europe.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-21 21:33 |