Word: citizens
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...timing is very important. Otherwise the ballot itself will be meaningless and will not empower the people. These elections, if they are held under a dispensation in which one man can brutalize the constitution and get away with it, will only contribute to the disempowerment of the Pakistani citizen. Democracy means empowerment, not just voters queues on polling day. That empowerment is essential, and it cannot come without an independent judiciary. Without that empowerment you cannot fight terror. The tools, the weapons to fight the war on terror are an empowered people who are assured that no man has arbitrary...
...aspirations today must be seen as the real ally of the West for restoring civilized living and for the end of conflict. The tools that will help are the tools of Western civilization: due process, rule of law, constitutional supremacy, an independent judiciary with powers like habeas corpus and citizens who feels secure in their relationship with the state. These are all the things that Pervez Musharraf has denied and denuded the country of, and these are all the deprivations that the militant and the extremist thrives on. You have got to start thinking, is a mass of 160 million...
...just no Citizen Kane...
...Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up would labor under another handicap: it's designed to make people laugh. The top Oscar has gone to a handful of comedies (including It Happened One Night and Annie Hall), but generally the Academy prefers to be edified. The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce...
...percent of the delegates to the Republican National Convention are unpledged; of those, a significant portion is unelected. In this election and every election, the chance that a handful of political elites has the power to overturn the will of the people is an unforgivable affront to democracy.One citizen, one vote: A principle basic enough for elementary students to grasp manages to elude our major political parties. Privileged as they are by electoral laws that make third-party success all but impossible, the Democrats and Republicans cannot hide behind tired excuses of their moral or legal independence...