General hazardous for (real) democracy Platonist As I am (the time being still) convinced that democracy is not the best but the safest form of government, to organize the will and the advantage of as many members. Vulnerable to tyranny and abuse of power, the state forms of leadership and the oligarchy. But vulnerable is also democracy, such as when commercial companies, large corporations, especially those in the financial industry, with the help of the media they control (see in particular FOX in the U.S.), democratic politics undermine, manipulate and shape according to their wishes, and if the ranks the elected people's representatives will be gradually replaced by puppets.
starting point of the weakening of modern democracy - which is not to compare this course with the Athenian Socrates and Plato - is in my opinion, the unequal distribution of responsibility for the state to carry its individual members. In Austria, an adult man, who, after a positive review of his performance, refusing to do military or civilian service
attend to, threatened with severe punishment. His responsibility to the state is comparatively small. Theoretically, even government employees, threatened with abuse, with punishment (
§ 302 StGB [Austria] with "one to ten years' imprisonment) is, in practice, the officials only from the service" suspended "or it will be a voluntary resignation requested - this especially in cases of members of parliament even before their immunity from prosecution lifted. These measures will, at least in my Home, apparently not by judicial or executive, but controlled by the respective parties, which belong to the relevant politicians. In the case of election fraud in Burgenland
, was the culprit, the former mayor of Unterrabnitz back. Other consequences are not known to me.
Of course you can do this as a legal detail problems, as the inspecting system components considered, but - apart from its legal complexity - show up by themselves in a proud law countries such as Austria, the differences in jurisdiction and execution, between those individuals with lower and those with much power in the state. It seems that with a lot of power, carry through this naturally also a lot of responsibility to be punished for abuse of power is lower and less frequent than those with less power and therefore less responsibility (against the interests of the community of the state).
added now to this imbalance among the citizens that private companies are able to afflict about law away, and by acting internationally, including the responsibility to deal towards its founding members and their companies. An international organization that manages private, commercial companies, as it were placed under a legal system that does not exist. Companies as legal entities shall be - where they are registered - as citizens punished. You pay in the case of convictions, heavy fines - they can afford in practice - and can continue with their business, no matter how much power and thus responsibility, they gain by this, a legal person with no office, by it, in case of abuse of his own power, particularly punished and his activities and power may be removed. Nevertheless, the impact on the welfare of individual States have the specific companies are enormous, so it is insufficient, as some strong stock company legally be considered as a private individual.
I am convinced that the greatest risk to the remaining, real democracies of this human world is that actors of private companies many forms, in the space of international business practices, form a parallel society unbound largely to the laws and the responsibility of individual democratic states are involved. Groupings, such as those extremist religions that are just trying to exist as a state within the same community, are a low hazard, and must operate within the respective state and therefore must fail their isolation. Big companies can act beyond the state, they can, in their networks, in fact, exist parallel to state and democracy. This is an imbalance of power and responsibility, which is superadded the "classical" inequality of powerful and powerless citizens. A triad is formed, generate weak in the citizens, strong citizens and powerful, but unbound company, a new overall system without a functional set of rules for unregulated, unrepentant, but still existing dependencies, and this is injustice to call and may, at such is not (democratic) State building.
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