Kikapu wrote:It was to show VP, that there are options in getting what we want as far as "safeguards" in a democratic way which can be agreed on by both sides.
Democracy is NOT a bunch of arrangements "
agreed on in a democratic way" as you seem to suggest above, but a system of government with CRYSTAL CLEAR and UNWAVERING properties...
We can think of democracy as a system of government with four key elements:
1. A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections.
2. The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life.
3. Protection of the human rights of all citizens.
4. A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens.
http://www.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/iraq/ ... 012004.htm
Your plan fails on ALL four elements above because the KEY WORD in democracy is
CITIZENS, not communities, but
CITIZENS!
In a democracy, the supreme power lies in a body of citizens not ethnic gangs!
Only a citizen-based system of government can ever be democratic and everything else is hogwash!