[news] Little by little, democracy is being banned

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by George Monbiot ; Published in the Guardian (August 03 2004) If we have 
learnt anything over the past eighteen months it is this: that the first rule 
of politics - power must never be trusted - still applies. The government will 
neither regulate itself nor be regulated by the institutions which surround it. 
Parliament chose to believe a string of obvious lies. The media repeated them, 
the civil service let them pass, the judiciary endorsed them. The answer to the 
age-old political question - who guards the guards? - remains unchanged. Only 
the people will hold the government to account.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/171327/8941