Aristides Posted April 5 Report Posted April 5 Quote Whenever I see Elon Musk gloating about how he's laying waste to 'woke' government departments, sacking hundreds of thousands of people on a whim, I think of Tony Benn's five questions to ask the powerful: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. And how can we get rid of you? "If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you" he told parliament in 2001 "you do not live in a democratic system." Tony Benn would have been 100 years old today. He was a huge inspiration to me and many others. Steeped in the English radical tradition, he also maintained an internationalist outlook to his politics. As we struggle to defend democracy against those who seek to avoid accountability, his five questions provide the starting point for our fightback against authoritarianism. Quote
User Posted April 5 Report Posted April 5 18 hours ago, Aristides said: Who exactly are you quoting here? Source? What does this have to do with anything? Quote
CdnFox Posted April 5 Report Posted April 5 19 hours ago, Aristides said: Whenever I see Elon Musk gloating about how he's laying waste to 'woke' government departments, sacking hundreds of thousands of people on a whim, I think of Tony Benn's five questions to ask the powerful: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interests do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. And how can we get rid of you? "If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you" he told parliament in 2001 "you do not live in a democratic system." But we have the answers to all those questions. 1 - he has the power to recommend terminations and downsizing in various gov't and govt funded orgs 2- he got it from the lawfully elected gov't of the united states 3 - he's acting in the interests of the gov't of the united states. 4 - He is accountable to that gov't 5- you can get rid of him by electing different gov't officials or by pressuring or petitioning the current ones Boom. So what's the problem? Quote There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
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