I would like
to take this opportunity to make a few comments
on this night of the US elections.
What I would like to address is
a belief among most americans
that Democracy and Liberty are
intertwined and effectively one
in the same; that freedom means
the ability to elect politicians,
and little else. This is a
mentality we have often had to
address in Freedonia. Many people
question how we can be a nation
concerned with liberty while
also being a constitutional monarchy,
and not a republic or democracy.
However, we have said time and
time again that in Freedonia freedom
and liberty are important above
all else, and that our unique system
of government, our unique system
of constitutional monarchy, is
better able to preserve that freedom
than traditional republics or
direct democracies.
Tonight, you
will see democracy in action in the United
States. But you will not see freedom
or liberty in action. You
will see the majority of voters
deciding among two versions of
statism, two versions of which
rights you can keep, and two
versions of a government out of
control. Tonight you will see that
the US founding fathers' vision
of democracy, of democracy as a
mechanism to protect liberty,
has failed.
Recently, Paul
Benjamin and Jerry Brito of liberzine.com wrote
an article where they came to
many of the same conclusions that we
in Freedonia came to a long time
ago. Their article follows below.
Yours in Liberty,
John I