“I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution ....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States. That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States.”
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CIA Off Campus: Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research
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Philip Agee
Philip Agee was an American writer known for his revelations of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) secret activities. Agee was a former CIA agent who, due to moral and ethical reasons, publicly disclosed the secret operations of the CIA, becoming a landmark figure in anti-spy activities during the Cold War. more
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