bobk wrote:Free wrote:Democracy is mob rule.
You're absolutely right, and so few people really understand this.
They have been brainwashed/indoctrinated/educated to believe we have a Democracy and then falsely equate that with freedom. The "dumming down" going on in public 'education' centers has been very successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_GattoBesides, the herd mentality that government schooling foments, favors mob rule, anyway.
Alexander Frazer Tytler has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
Free wrote:U$HPA is fascist corporatism run by one lawyer and a few complicit henchmen.
It is not a democracy. There are no individual rights.
The only rules are to cover up what they've done before.
Bob wrote
USHPA gives us the "illusion" of choosing our Directors, but since USHPA doesn't publish the Director's voting records, we have no way to know what they've actually done. So USHPA elections are essentially a popularity contest.
A popularity contest
is democracy but only if the election isn't rigged.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ http://blackboxvoting.comMark Forbes, works/worked for gambling interest, setting/programming slot machines.
Does anyone believe that there has never been voting shennanigans in at U$HPA?
How much does anyone really trust Mark Forbes?
As you say, it's the "illusion" of a Member's organization. Even if all the elections were honest, you still don't know how your Representative voted.
I'll tell you how a majority always votes and that is exactly how the corporate lawyer wants them to vote.
It's the delphi method of "facillitators" splitting up the issues and directing the 'subjects' to the intended concensus.
http://www.learn-usa.com/transformation_process/acf001.htm Free wrote:I find it hard to concentrate on the death of hang gliding, as the death of the Republic ensues.
Bob wrote
Doing one doesn't preclude doing the other. After all, if I hadn't created the US Hawks to save hang gliding, I wouldn't have found a place to read your political comments - many of which I agree with.
Tell me the things you don't agree with and we can communicate much better.
Hate to keep going back to the burning house paradigm but I'm seeing starting an alternative association a little like painting a recreation room a pleasing color as hooligans are torching every corner of your house.
A swell idea, but how effective?
Hang gliding will probably survive the coming shake down for those that can afford it.
An alternative association will have to compete in that market.
The U$HPA corporation has great political and financial advantage in that scenario.
U$HPA has become a little mini-quasi government of it's own.
They can levy dues and fees from one member to parcel out to another.
They don't answer to anyone, except to those at the top... the 'shadow' government..
ie; the lawyer and a few henchmen..
The deck is stacked heavily against an alternative association that merely mirrors the status quo.
Add that to the implosion of rights, freedom and economy as we hurtle along with insane never ending war increasingly leading us to total global war on anyone that isn't the government with resultant engineered financial collapse.. and a clueless populace.. sorry but I lose my enthusiasm..