Murataga wrote:miltiades wrote:YFred wrote:Come on Miltiades, you are better informed than that.
In the EU each country to their own. One country can block any law or process it likes. Totally undemocratic.
UK - We changed to 3 parliments where Everyone has a say in London and yet English have no say in Wales or Scotland.
The welsh and the scotts have two votes on account that they are a minority.
And to add insult to injury, we bankroll them from London. Where is the fairness in that?
Very simple. There is no one man one vote which adheres to your principle of democracy.
There moving towards confederation.
Fred I think you ought to study the fundamental principles of Democracy.
Here is one definition of democracy that holds true in all democratic states , and please note that it does not extend to a union of nations that come together as democratic nations each equal to one another regardless of size , wealth or power , any other method would be totalitarian and despotic.
Here is what democracy is all about :The political orientation of those who favour government by the people or by their elected representatives
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them .
Majority rule: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group , DO PLEASE NOTICE " THE WHOLE GROUP MEANING POLITICAL GROUP .
We never ever agreed to be in a state governed on the principle of majority rule with the GCs in Cyprus. We (and you) agreed to be in a state governed based on the political equality of the two communities. The U.N. and the rest of the world acknowledge that there are two communities with political equality in Cyprus. The RoC was not established based on the majority rule of the GCs and its constitution (before you altered it with the "doctrine of necessity") was not constructed based on the majority rule. I don`t know what your leaders are feeding you with in domestic politics but to the world they too, since 1979, are stating that there exists two politically communities and the solution to the Cyprus problem will be based on a bi-coomunal, bi-zonal federation with the political equlaity of the two communities.
Do you know why? It is because there exists no historical, political or ethical premise granting the GCs the right to extend their majority rule over TCs on this island. There never was, and there never will be. The sooner you deal with these facts as a community the better for all. You have been treated as the nation of this island for far too long and you are just flipping out against the fact that it is about to expire. Deal with it.
Murataga, what gave or gives you the notion that any Cypriot either G/C or one of the thousands of T/Cs that recognize the RoC and demonstrate against the Turkish occupation of the Northern part of Cyprus , is in any way or form "flipping out " against the "fact" that the RoC is about to expire ??
The RoC IS the only nation of Cyprus , the occupied part is ruled by the occupying power , the world knows it and an ever increasing number of T/Cs are waking up to the realities and making their voices heard. The 80 thousand or so T/Cs remaining on the island will in no time be swallowed up by this third world nation and they are reacting against their continued extinction.
If on the other hand you think that the number of the RoC days are numbered in view of an agreement soon to be reached let me assure you that unless Turkey abandons her self awarded right of intervention on this island , even extreme moderates such as I will reject any forthcoming agreement which legalizes Turkeys right to intervene .
The majority and minority issue does not concern me one bit , what concerns me is the creation of a Turkish or a Greek state within my nations borders. My nation is one trillion percent Cyprus and all Cypriots irrespective of colour and breed are my compatriots . To see a T/C as the president of this entire island , dedicated to Cyprus , is my dream .
First will follow the removal of the nonsense that We must have a foreign power as a motherland. The T/Cs are an integral part of this island only as Cypriots first the same criteria applies to all other Cypriots. If you or others who see as your motherland a foreign nation persist on this road then solution will never be achieved and conflict will be always just around the corner.