Democracy? What is it supposed to mean?? Are the media moguls and the radicals who imagine that freedom means freedom to wreck, to create havoc, the persons to who the politicians are accountable to?? Does it mean a Chief Justice who is politically partisan??
Just what the heck does democracy mean??
The editorial below from the Frontier post dated 01jun2008
What parliament for?
What have the voters elected their lawmakers for? For munching pistachios and eating almonds? Over three months have passed since the poll, and the new parliament has hardly transacted any business worth the name. No legislative bill has it discussed; no law has it enacted. And yet the new leadership had come promising that it would make the parliament supreme. Even now, it keeps chanting this mantra. But what kind of parliamentary supremacy is this leadership practising that the issues of supreme national import that the people’s elected representatives should be deciding are being decided outside this august house?
And, worse, the lawmakers sitting in the house have not the foggiest idea of what is being discussed and decided outside; not even do the new leadership’s closet allies. Still worse, a politico who from the poll has not emerged even as an unrivalled provincial leader of Punjab has the gumption to flaunt the airs of a popular national leader and some kind of a national hero, peremptorily dictating the agenda for the nation and setting his terms and conditions for its fulfillment.
More gallingly, he has deceptively catapulted his personal grouses and grudges to cloak them into a national agenda. And dissuaded not a wee bit by the turmoil this unfortunate nation will imminently be thrown in for his mad pursuit for settling personal scores, he is pushing ahead blindly for the fructification of his self-serving agenda. Quite cleverly, he has also entrapped the PPP leadership in his devious contrivance, to remain bogged down in it irretrievably, and come out of it badly bruised, if at all. Since the PPP is in the driving seat, it must see through this game plan of this politico before it is too late. Evidently, the poverty-stricken, unemployment-bitten, disease-ridden multitudes of this deeply-wronged nation are aghast. As adversities in battalions are adding to the huge pile of their miseries, they find the new leadership stuck up with issues that have no immediate direct bearing on their difficult lives; not with the issues of their urgent needs and pressing grievances to bring them some relief to their beleaguered tormented lives. They are increasingly getting impatient and restive. They had hoped for a change with the change of leadership to their unenviable miserable plight. But, thanks to the perfidious ploys of this politico, their high hopes are receding fast into oblivion.
A mass-scale wave of public despondency, frustration, hopelessness and despair has set in and is visibly escalating fast. The net loser of this public disenchantment with the new leadership will be none else but the PPP for being in the saddle, while he himself will be quite a gainer for having craftily walked out of the coalition government at the centre to evade the inevitable public slur for the new leadership’s failure to provide the people the relief that they had hoped for.
The PPP thus stands in dire need to review its act and straighten it up, no lesser in its own political interests. For this, the party leadership must define clearly what its government has to do and what has the parliament to do. Clearly, neither the turfed-out judges’ reinstatement nor the constitutional package, on account of which the PPP is drawing so much of tendentious censure, calculatedly inspired misgivings and avoidable public consternation, was the PPP’s exclusive problem; not even of the PML (N) or the PPP’s ruling allies, for that matter. These two are essentially matters of national concern; and the right forum for their resolution could only be the parliament, where sit the lawmakers of various political parties and of various denominations, each with its own votebank and with its own public support base.
It is this all-inclusive forum of the people’s elected representatives which, by every definition, is competent enough to decide issues of national dimensions and national ramifications. Even now when these two issues come before the parliament, as they have to be, these predictably will have no smooth sailing.
Yet the collective wisdom of the lawmakers will surely throw up solutions of wider acceptability and of wider gratification. Not unreasonably, the new leadership, when in political wilderness, was pleading to make the parliament supreme. And not implausibly was this leadership critical of the retired general for keeping the parliament out of the state counsels, for giving it a short shrift in the making of state policies and decisions, and for ploughing his lonely furrows in running the state. But now that this leadership is ruling the roost it should not be doing what it then said should not be done; and practise not what it then deemed wrong and unacceptable.
Parliament it should give the rightful place that is due to it by every canon. Inclusiveness, not exclusiveness, it must understand, makes well for tackling the ticklish issues, for formulating sound policies, and for taking sane decisions. The PPP leadership would do well to let the parliament decide policy issues and contentious matters. After all, the lawmakers are there not to sit and rubberstamp the decisions taken outside the house.
The taxpayer is paying them up fatly to apply their best minds to and deliberate vigorously on matters of great national import and of great public concern. Instead, the PPP leadership employs all its best capabilities to address the people’s urgent needs and demands of bread and butter. It is for this that the people will judge it and it is for this that the electorate would go for it in the next poll; the people will reward it if it has done good to them; they will be very unkindly to it if they deem it has not been good to them.
see dear you can not apply the same model everywhere regarding democracy. 
