I think it is imperative to underscore, that the destiny of our nation
does not lie in the hands of any one individual. Our nation, just like any
other nation, is in a continuous process of evolving; within this process, it
creates its own contradictions, and the seeds of discontent within the
process, ignites its revolution. This process is as natural as the laws that
govern nature. The conditions have to be ripe within this evolutionary
process, for its revolution to take place. When it does, it would be sudden,
spontaneous, and a complete break from the process itself.

     What is more revolutionary than the act of child birth? When the
conditions are ripe for a baby to be born, there is nothing that will keep
that baby in the womb. It takes a push, an involuntary spasm, for this joyous
beauty to herald its birth to the world. The catalyst that spark such a
revolution, can be as inconsequential as the increase in the price of a loaf
of bread.

     Therefore, those who delude themselves into beleiving that they have
power, and are in control of this process, will ultimately find to their
utter dismay, that it is indeed this process which controls them. That it is
indeed this process, which overtakes those who create their own realities.

     Political thinkers have long since recognize the dynamics of this
evolutionary process, and in order to minimize its revolutionary
consequences, conceptualize a system of orderly processes in which harmony is
forged out of disharmony, and reason out of chaos.

      Politics, therefore, becomes a negation of violence, govern by
fundamental principles of rights and responsibilities, enshrined within a
constitutional framework, that establish just and reasonable laws that should
govern people. The legitimate basis of any authority to govern, therefore,
must derived from the consent of the governed.

     Democracy is relative, but its fundamental principles must be recognize,
in the right to free expression of ideas and beliefs. As long as people do
not violate laws, their rights to such free expression of ideas and beliefs
should not be constraint. As long as people's rights to such free expression
of ideas and beliefs, are not injurious to the nation and others, their
activities should not be restrictive. The actions of people within a
democratic framework, should not be defined by any individual, but should be
defined within the framework of the law. If the law permits people to belief
in whatever they want, so be it.

      We should be a nation of just laws, and allow the national interest,
embodied in our constitution, to superimpose itself on the struggles between
interest groups, creating an aura of normalcy, that perpetuates the stability
of the nation.

     Rene

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