Steve................"The Old Sea Dog".................(retired)

Democracy. An illusion or fact?

I have spent the greater part of my working life in the service of my country, often referred to as the oldest living democracy in the world. More recently I was asked for my opinion on this subject. This made me think long and hard.

I intend to publish, in the following links, articles written by respected men/women on this subject and add some thoughts of my own. They will be very personal thoughts formed from my own life experiences and from a European perspective.

You will not necessarily agree with the ideas voiced in these articles as often they will reflect the flavour, and not necessarily accurate historical facts. This Steve is no historian, but has had some deeper thoughts on this, and as such, you are invited to read my views and the views of others.

In the spirit of "Freedom Of Speech" I invite your views, and I will be happy to publish them if you wish on these pages. You of course will be credited with your articles.

Up-Dated 1st December 2004

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Newsweek Article	Home Page	My first thoughts
Between the wars	Dunkirk and Churchill	Send them to Coventry
On The Ration	The 1947 investigation	The Russian contribution
Pearl Harbour	"D" Day	Charlie Chaplin
The long armistice of 1918-1939	Download Churchill MP3	Rod Stewart, Tom Traybert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda) download MP3
Chronology	Berlin	God is a socialist?
They named the names	Okinawa, Nuclear War then The Berlin Airlift	17 men lost
French Indo-China	Pastor Niemoeller Political Prisoner	Gunboat Diplomacy
Blind Faith ?	1982....One mans opinion	The shame of the Swiss
Conclusions	The Bear Is Sick	First hand experience
An Alternative Point Of View	Later	Later
Later	Later	Later