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The commission needs to be neutered before the EU can be considered truly democratic.

They also have raised a question in many people's minds: Are all authoritarian regimes now threatened by this new democratic wave?

We are now on the cusp of being a police state, but I really hope people won't let that dissuade them from exercising their civic duty to engage the democratic process.

Indeed, every small business Google has run over has democratic representation.

I won't edit my previous comment but let me add some things:I didn't mean to be insulting but if you want it to be a democratic movement you have to avoid inside jokes at all cost.

So, you're saying that organized political action to affect democratic change in America could be considered a "terrorist" threat?

* You could build a sweet github-style outward facing interface allowing the public to track the progress of bills in real time, increasing democratic awareness and participation.

The fact that this guy can come straight out and say he's going to ignore court rulings and the democratic will of the elected MEPs with no fear of reprisals, because he's not elected, yet he can hold so much power ... it's sick.

That's as nonsensical as a large corporation justifying their political donations as an innocent, democratic expression of political preference.

Even in democratic societies with large majorities in favor of free communication over the internet, the internal imperatives of governments to monitor and control trump the will of the people, no matter who is in power.

The shantytowns that the author found so disturbing are actually a side-effect of India's weak property rights laws, which themselves are a result of democratic pressure from the poor to continue living where their families have lived for generations.

[2] In the UK this is a semi-democratic consultation process which occurs at local government level and involves publicly presenting the designs to local councillors to give residents of the area a chance to raise a formal objection.

The islamic revolution occurred in Iran as a direct result of the hostile actions of the CIA, who in 1953 overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed the Shah as an absolute monarch, with full authorisation from Eisenhower and Churchill.