Democracy Is...

Winner from the Central and South Asian Region of the inaugural edition of the Democracy Video Challenge (2009)...


Tsering Choden's entry from Kathmandu, Nepal for the Democracy Video Challenge - http://www.videochallenge.america.gov/index.html.

CREDITS

Concept - Tsering Choden, Yanik Shrestha
Music - Pravin Chettri
Lyrics - Lyrics InThePenDense
Performers - Lyrics InThePenDense
Translation - Vikash Pradhan
Audio Bytes - Srijan Man Nakarmi
Camera - Pravat J Gurung, Bipra Acharya, Tsering Choden
Post Production
(Audio) - Pravat J Gurung
(Video) - Tsering Choden, Vikash Pradhan
Direction - Tsering Choden
Produced by Vikash Pradhan, oneFILM - http://motleymix.com.np

Special Thanks - Subel Bhandari

VOICES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Gagan Thapa - Youth Political Leader, Constituent Assembly Member
Anil Chitrakar - Social Entrepreneur, Conservationist
Woman 1 - Lady working in a dance bar
Viplob Pratik - Poet, Lyricist
Purney Tamang - Driver
Shom Tamang - Office Assistant
Woman 2 - Shopkeeper
Woman 3 - Palmist
Boy - Student
Man - Shopkeeper
Girl - Student

Category:

Film & Animation

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[NOBS4321]

James Madison defined republic in terms of "representative democracy" as opposed to direct democracy, and this usage is "still employed ..."

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The "Father of the Constitution," he was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.

[stopdemockery]

@dutchfreedoms How can a system be horrible if it makes the will of the majority the law of the land? We all want peace, justice, freedom and prosperity. Don't you? Or, do you prefer rule by the tiny mob of psychotic banksters who illegally own our planet and Us and have now sucked both dry? Or, are you one of those monsters? Or, are you simply ignorantly quoting their expensive propaganda, incorrectly?

[nag481]

^ Singh, Sarbans (1993). Battle Honours of the Indian Army 1757 - 1971



. New Delhi: Vision Books. pp. 257–278. ISBN 8170941156. Retrieved 3 November 2011.

^ "Martyrs"

. National Defense Academy, Pune.

^ "Param Vir Chakra"

. Government of India.

[TopZAirborne]

America isnt a democracy its a Corporatocracy. We are ran by companies. Bye people of the company. America wants everyone to be like them. I love america its just i think of government as something that the free masons made it as. They wrote the constitution yet half of america doesnt even know about its own history.

[AuroraFalcon]

To lazy to read all the comments but I just wanted to let every one know a republic and a democracy are 2 different things. The US is a Republic and thats all i know.

other than that

TROLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!­!!!!!!!!1!!1!!1!!!!!1111

[stopdemockery]

@JohananRaatz ~ Oh, I see your problem. If I thought the people were evil, I'd hate the idea of democracy, too. But, I know the average human only wants peace, justice, and prosperity for posterity. Don't you? Does anyone you know want less. There are just a few tiny, greedy minds who want things like they are: the banksters and their hired goons: the politicians. The world's leaders are Humanity's only real threat and only true, declared enemy. If it weren't for them, we'd have heaven,

[JohananRaatz]

@stopdemockery "designed to define and fulfill the true will of the people"

Good God! Why on earth would you want that?! That would in all likelihood create an even worse democratic failure than the ones we have seen today. Let the mob run around and they will trample the rights of everyone in the 49%.

"Nor can you rightfully call it evil"

Sure you can. If the will of the people is evil and the people vote for something evil then the democracy (and the majority of people in it) would be evil.

[stopdemockery]

@JohananRaatz ~ There's never been a government designed to define and fulfill the true will of the people. Hence, there's never been a true democracy. It's always been railroaded into facism or oligarchy by factions of powerful evil people. You can't blame something that never existed for all the world's problems. Nor can you rightfully call it evil. And, I suspect people who fight against democracy work for those evil people.

[JohananRaatz]

@stopdemockery You're kidding me right? I can list all sorts of places democratic failure have occurred. Every place socialism or abortion has been implemented democratically constitutes a democratic failure.

"because it hasn't happened yet."

That's because nature abhors a pure democracy. Factions in a pure democracy are like virtual particles in the quantum vacuum. The instant they appear they annihilate again and are replaced with something that is not purely democratic.

[stopdemockery]

@JohananRaatz ~ Democracy couldn't have failed, because it hasn't happened yet.