Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
For a Harvard-trained lawyer, one would think that enough intellectual industry would have been spent inquiring into why term limits exist, and though amendable in principle, are practically not desirable to be amended.
1. If a president has been very effective, his effectiveness must be of a kind that creates a system & institutions that ensure effective governance even after his time in office.
2. An effective governance must not be one built as a personal cult. An effective leader must have assembled a group of men whom he has effectively trained and influenced to succeed him.
3. It is thus an indictment on a leader to suggest that a leader has been so good that, in his absence, effective governance would be impossible. This is why Nkrumah’s one-party state attitude was, in principle, flawed.
4. One very foundational principle on which democracy is built is the principle of open participation.
It means that our politics doesn't abhor dictatorship merely because of its totalitarian character, but also, because it is ethically improper for one person to govern for long.
The principle of open participation requires that the window of political participation be kept widely open, with rules on entry and exit being strictly enforced, so that no one man can become the state.
It is why, in liberal economics, monopoly is undesirable, even if it drives prices down.
It is a principle-based assessment that isn't exclusively outcome contingent.
5. Through frequent and constant change of minds that govern, the society can strive to adopt workable institutions and systems that ensure effective governance, rather than waiting for one good leader.
If one good man stays in power for 40 years, the long-term utility is marginal. It is marginal because the person risks reducing the state to their persona, without any interim test of whether the systems and institutions are resilient enough to support other approaches to governance other than that of the present leader.
6. This is why governments & political parties that are reduced to personal cults of the principal leader often fail after his tenure.
It is undesirable to build a state that way.
7. Let Mahama have his dance within the constitutional time limits.
If the Majority leader's view is that the NDC lacks leaders worthy and fit to replace Mahama, we here insist that the NDC isn't exhaustive of all capable minds in Ghana. Not at all.
8. The politicians shouldn't whip the minds of gullible Ghanaians who have long endured bad & poor leadership into thinking that their future is assured in granting more years to one man only because he is perceived to be doing better than his predecessors.
That is not our democratic design.
Thirty-six million people should be able to produce competent minds every 4 or 8 years to replace the old ones.
9. We are capable.