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   Républicain 2012-5-2

   The abstention propagandists cannot smoke us out. They work for the Islamists. The discussion about democracy will take place at the right time, hour, place and location. For the moment, the crucial issue is to these belligerent, vindictive anti-patriots, who are the self-proclaimed mortal enemies of democracy, which they declare “infidel” even if it allows them to access seats in power. What consistency is there in their schematic!?! We are all going to the ballots on May 10th. The people will win, God willing! And we will advance on the long and complex path to democracy. We will demand reforms that re-establish authentic democratic principals and forget about this bully anti-model that has been imposed on us. But, the Republic needs to survive on May 10th so that all of or hopes will be possible. Save the Republic on May 10th, 2012. This and nothing else is the stakes. The republicans must put themselves in the service of the threatened republic.

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   Benmhidi 2012-5-2

   The debate should take place around the world, not just on ENTV! The governments elected in the West are elected with more than 50% abstentions and, what is more, this is on a regular basis in spite of the self-congratulatory smooth talking. Do they represent the interests of the people or only the oligarchies and the other powerful industrial, military, oil and nuclear lobbies? These governments, already quite on the right, have made a turn to the extreme right during the very recent years, excusing themselves with the global “financial crisis”, which is in reality the most serious systemic crisis since 1929 and which the leaders of the world exploit for the interests of the oligarchies alone and make the people and the Third world, which is already suffocated in advance, pay in straw. Do these leaders represent the peoples? The democratic game is confiscated by two formations, which are two sides of the same coin, both in the service of the global CAC 40, which finance them in contempt of the laws for party financing. (It was 50 million euros for a presidential campaign for one candidate in 2007!?!) Is that democracy? To fleece the people is one thing, but to take them for baboons is a line that they had better not cross. In Algeria, the model imposed is hardly better, but the stakes for us Algerians is – and this is because of the urgency of the moment – whether we should leave the field open to those who would fire sell our national sovereignty and start by removing the sacred flag from the front of our Popular Community Assembly; who would execute the road map written before 1990 somewhere between Doha and Tel Aviv; who would drive the people two centuries back in a night of terror, of which they alone know the secret. The stakes are putting a dam up against these mercenary, belligerent, vindictive anti-patriots!!! We will all go to the ballots!!!

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   kamara 2012-4-29

   [1] “The Boycott” – Democracy is not an illusion or a mirage, but a reality that certain countries enjoy. Democracy is not an abstract idea, but a concrete experience that every citizen should have in his everyday life. Democracy is not empty rhetoric and promises, but a mode of social and political organisation with concrete aspects to it, the first of which is the freedom of the citizens. In a democratic country, freedom should not suffer any restrictions. In the case of elections – both people who are in favour of a boycott and people who are in favour of participation should not suffer from restrictions. They should have the same rights. It so happens that the people who are campaigning for the boycott are hampered, intimidated, banned and sometimes chased down by the security services. This is a bad sign. Not voting is not a crime. It is possible to be unconvinced of the usefulness of this vote. Democracy is indivisible. There is no “half-democracy”; there is only democracy or dictatorship. The government should choose between these options. We need to try to understand why these citizens are not convinced to participate. The answer may be easy: they are not convinced of the authenticity and honesty of these elections and they have a right to express it. Let us not forget that fraud has been a recurrent theme. Fraud was officially recognized during the last elections. You cannot build a democracy on a dictatorship. And even if there is a boycott, it is a sign of vigilance from these citizens so as not to jeopardize their children’s future. If two out of every three Algerians do not vote, the parliament that comes out of these elections will not be representative of the population. Instead of defending a part of the people – the ones who will take part in the vote – ENTV should hold a debate.

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   'TZIRI 2012-4-26

   [3] … this is proof – if more proof is needed – that politics are reduced to powerlessness in the North. So how will it bear fruit for the South, a continent under the influence, impaired, harassed, asphyxiated, mistreated and assailed on a thousand fronts? But the peoples want to continue to believe that the streets must remain the ultimate path. They know the price and they have paid it so many times when they have had their backs to the wall and when they were cornered. Qualifying the Algerian people as apathetic is to misunderstand them. These people have shown so many times that they will never give up! Spread the word! They will never give up their rights, their dignity, their freedoms or their dreams. They children are different but equal and live in peace and harmony on a holy land! All the democratic and patriotic brothers and responsible citizens are going to go vote in order not to leave the field open to the predators, who are organised, overfunded, coached, doped up and so on and have been at the starting blocks for a long time, inspired by the Arab spring, that is blooming now as it did before in summer, autumn and winter. There are more seasons. The weather is crazy! God protect Algeria and its people! We will all be at the ballots on May 10 out of love for Algeria! God willing!!!

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   'TZIRI 2012-4-26

   [2] … in the streets and capitals of the world. The anti-globalisationists and the Indignados are all expressing their rejection of this false democracy and demanding another, authentic model and another globalisation beside the one which is imposed by violent ultra-liberal capitalism and which is held hostage by auto-pilot financing. The latter imposes its dictates on states that are reduced to the role of consensual executors. It is this remarking of the failure of politics according to this anti-model imposed on the world in the North and the South that is the cause of citizen’s wariness toward and even rejection of elections in general. In all the Western countries, these elections are the subject to incredible media hype, televised shows and televised journalism during prime time, which aim to format public opinion and which address the froth of the day, but never the basis of the problem: the system itself, the model of society, the nature of North and South relations, the division of wealth, nuclear energy, the UN system, etc. To conclude, the power “democracy”, which is deformed at birth by jet-black forceps – two sides of the same coin – has nothing to do with the interests of the majority!!! With “official” abstention rates at more than 50%, this is proof – if more proof is needed – that politics are reduced to powerlessness in the North. So how will it bear fruit for the South, a continent under the influence, impaired, harassed, asphyxiated, mistreated and assailed on a thousand fronts? But the peoples want to continue to believe that the streets must remain the ultimate path. They know the price and they have paid it so many times when they have had their backs to the wall and when they were cornered.

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   'TZIRI 2012-4-26

   [1] “As Algeria's legislative election approaches, pundits ponder reasons why authorities and political candidates have yet to ignite the voter base.” The reasons are pretty much the same worldwide. In the quite old democracies, which are visibly dangerously adrift, the principal has been noted by the brilliant minds of both the North and the South who have remained faithful to the demos: democracy has been mutated into a muscled plutocracy, which the unelected powerful capitalist oligarchies militarily impose on the world in the North and South. Its law is relegated to the role of determiner for all political apparatuses of all stripes. This is because what is essential is decided elsewhere than in the parliaments, whose “reputable elected persons” are but the winners of scheming casting calls to form a new jet-set caste, which is as useless as it is costly for the taxpayers and which is only preoccupied with its own privileges. In other terms, this is the damnation of the real democracies, who know well that a political system through an honest democracy is the only peaceful and, therefore, acceptable means to exercise popular sovereignty. But, the counter-model imposed on the world is the photographic negative of the democratic model, for which the peoples continue to fight. The power is confiscated into the hands of ultra-minority, authoritarian interests, which bully all of the rules of democracy, starting with the foreign financing of certain known parties, which is a true perverse, foreign interference in the interior affairs of our states and violated the democratic game and the sovereignty of the people. In the North and the South, the peoples know that they are being robbed of their sovereignty and are saying so … To be continued in [2].

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