Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 | 7:58 a.m.
The players have changed, though, and the Hitlers, Mussolinis and Khruschevs of the day are now the Bushes, Cheneys and DeLays of our time. They pervert democracy for their personal gain and world ideology, forsaking the will of the people, of whom they are but servants.
How can America export democracy through advertising, when there is no majority rule? When elections are paid for and fixed; freedom of speech quashed; invasion of privacy rampant; and no-bid contracts go to campaign supporters?
Besides, we are a very young country, 229 years young, with a past of lying to the Native Americans, with whom we made and broke treaties. The Supreme Court made us caregivers of these people. Any guardian who treated a ward the way we treated the native people would be given a life sentence, if not the ultimate one.
Justice Zenoff was correct, "propaganda is not a dirty word," as long as your facts are correct.
Therefore, it is quite impudent for America, a baby country, to tell nations 2,000 years and older how they should run their countries.
America needs first to clean up its own house. Ferret out corruption. Make amends for our wrongs. Restore respect for God, no matter what you want to call him. Elect a president who will sign the International Criminal Courts Treaty.
When we can be held accountable to the world, then we can implement the Zenoff advertising campaign to a willing international market.
Sandra Miner Las Vegas
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