[Newspoetry] Subversive Activity: Original Uncut Scripts

[emerick at chorus.net]

Apparently, Democracy includes ways to side-step itself, as a matter of political form:
Government by edict -- aka fiat, decree, ukase, whim, caprice, one-man-rule,
dictatorship and tyranny.  Apparently, der Fuhrer is still someone's role model.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/national/19CALI.html?th

Schwarzenegger Declares Fiscal Crisis in California
By NICK MADIGAN
Invoking emergency powers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would bypass the Legislature to impose $150 million in spending cuts.