Since taking office a year ago, Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesia's first democratically elected president, has vowed to push through democratic reforms, including increased freedom of expression.
That aid--totaling $1.3 billion and making Egypt the second-largest recipient of U.S. military aid--had been halted in October 2013, when the State Department announced that because the Egyptian military had deposed a democratically-elected leader, U.S. military aid would be suspended until Egypt made "credible progress" toward democratic reforms.
Such an approach sees world conscience best expressing itself through political reforms promoting democratically based globalisation or planetary democracy (for example internet voting for global governance organisations (see world government) based on the model of "one person, one vote, one value") which gradually will replace contemporary market-based globalisation.
"There are those who are for reforms, democratically-minded, and there are conservatives.
And it seems odd for the Bank to demand that third-world governments, often these days democratically elected, should design their reforms alongside civil groups that are unelected, unaccountable and very often unrepresentative.But these are not points to worry the protesters as long as they enjoy the sympathy of many people in the West, as they appear to.
Next, a military government followed by democratically elected governments initiated market reforms and opened up the economy.
This was done to cleanse out any traces of a return to Guatemala's still uniquely unprecedented "years of spring in a land of eternal tyranny," which Guatemalan poet Cardoza y Aragón named the 1944-1954 periof of liberal (nonsocialist) economic and political reforms under two democratically elected governments, snuffed out by an Eisenhower-authorized military coup.
And, the largest portion of the 1999 money, $1.65 million, went to a Democratic Party committee supporting Congressional candidates, reflecting the view of many trial lawyers that a Democratically controlled House could halt tort reform.
But Gray added: "It is equally important that the group, as part of far-reaching reform, becomes substantially and democratically controlled by its members –and so remains, in letter and in spirit, a genuine co-operative".
In the Citizens United and Heller cases, he had no compunction about voting to strike down democratically enacted laws about campaign finance reform and gun control.
