How do we decide what to do in such perilous times? I suggest that we should: Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. ... Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true (Lord Buddha). As we seek to be a democracy, let us compare alternatives against former prime minister Anand Panyarachuns 7 Pillars of Sustainable Democracy, analyzing the extent to which each alternative meets each Pillar, which are: elections, political tolerance, the rule of law, freedom of expression, accountability and transparency, decentralization and civil society. As an elaboration of the rule of law, we must give equal rights to the minority, including those who live work, study, and pass through a protest venue, for the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression (Thomas Jefferson). Then, let your conscience lead you to action, for the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ( Edmund Burke).
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 02:34:59 +0000
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