This is, yes, democracy-suppression, but it is a vitally necessary arrangement.
Mr Snowden may be responsible for having exposed this hypocrisy, for having betrayed the thug omertà at the heart of America's domestic democracy-suppression programme, but the hypocrisy is America's.
The negative public health impacts of urban-rural environmental injustice come from human exposure to specific pollutants, degradation of the built environment, limits on popular democracy, and ultimately, suppression of the feedback between consumption and production that could lessen global environmental problems.
But voter fraud is no more poisonous to our democracy than voter suppression.
It requires a different kind of intelligence to close one's ears to the siren song of democracy promotion, terrorism suppression, and market-access preservation.
The suppression of democracy is a vile and often violent thing.
He defended censorship of the press, the suppression of democracy, and even downplayed execution without trial.
"Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy," the telegram said.
Meles had a long track record of bloody suppression of democracy.
Other abuses included forced labor, torture and sexual violence, and the arrests, imprisonment and suppression of democracy advocates and journalists.
Some residents and local leaders had warned that the suppression of democracy would fuel sentiment against the occupation.
