About yesterday’s entry, you might be asking “how tha hell did that Patriot Act go through congress!?”. Sarcastic answer to that would be “it’s unpatriotic to stop an act ordering people to be patriotic”. And I’m not sure that’s far from the truth. After 9/11, what politician in the USA would dare to go against an Act that was designed to prevent it from happening again? Who would dare to oppose the president at a time like that? And doesn’t that point to a huge flaw in democratic society? That a politician have to do something he or she feels is wrong, only to please the voters? To avoid comitting political suicide? It’s happened sometime in Sweden too that popular opinion has forced some bad choices. Any solution? Appointing a group of people who weren’t publically elected? The other side of the coin would be the Swedish court system. The judges only go by the letter of the law disregarding public opinion and sometime common sense. Like that “she didn’t look 14 and dressed older, so it wasn’t ‘sexual abuse of a minor'”-trial a few years back.
I usually don’t complain if I don’t have a counter solution, but this time I don’t. ‘Cause I prefer living in a democracy that makes some mistakes than in say China.
stoff
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