Comments on: Are the People of a Nation Responsible for the Actions of its Government? http://frankfurterschool.com/2008/04/07/are-the-people-of-a-nation-responsible-for-the-actions-of-its-government/ the meat of the matter Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:17:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: HPM http://frankfurterschool.com/2008/04/07/are-the-people-of-a-nation-responsible-for-the-actions-of-its-government/#comment-67 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:26:16 +0000 http://frankfurterschool.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-67 Clearly in a democracy the people are responsible for the actions of their government. But is this still the case when elections are stolen? Or when the elected refuse to implement the will of the people because our system of government has become so perverted that corporations are now the only constituency Congress worries about?

Yet, even this being the case, we Americans share plenty of blame for not contacting our members of Congress, not protesting, not demanding impeachment and for, generally, burying our heads in the sand.

And because of this it is very difficult to distinguish our actions from that of the Germans 70 years ago. Torture is torture. Atrocities are atrocities. Murder of innocents is the murder of innocents. The only difference is the number of each and is that really any difference at all when it’s done in your name?

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