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**durootrium** · 10-25-2006, 08:20 PM

No I mean from a historical perspective things that contain the words "People's" anything, as in implying ownership, are usually bad.

This is mostly the case in the USSR where there were dozens of government programs and agencies bearing this name that in actually did nothing but rob "the people."

There is an interesting case involving Poland whose official name contains the word "Rzeczpospolita" meaning something along the lines of commonwealth. This name has been historically very positive as it represented one of the first electoral democracies in the world with the 1st constitution in Europe. However when Poland became communist the name was changed to the People's Republic of Poland essentially disposing with the commonwealth and commencing the robbing of the citizens. Consequently the name was reversed when communism was abandoned.

I just in general distrust things done in the name of the people. That is not to say that things done FOR the people are bad, because obviously this wording is used often everywhere.

Also to be quite honest "We the people.." is making a hell of an assumption, right? As we see just half a century later, not everybody held those truths to be self-evident.

10-25-2006, 08:20 PM	#28
durootrium Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	No I mean from a historical perspective things that contain the words "People's" anything, as in implying ownership, are usually bad. This is mostly the case in the USSR where there were dozens of government programs and agencies bearing this name that in actually did nothing but rob "the people." There is an interesting case involving Poland whose official name contains the word "Rzeczpospolita" meaning something along the lines of commonwealth. This name has been historically very positive as it represented one of the first electoral democracies in the world with the 1st constitution in Europe. However when Poland became communist the name was changed to the People's Republic of Poland essentially disposing with the commonwealth and commencing the robbing of the citizens. Consequently the name was reversed when communism was abandoned. I just in general distrust things done in the name of the people. That is not to say that things done FOR the people are bad, because obviously this wording is used often everywhere. Also to be quite honest "We the people.." is making a hell of an assumption, right? As we see just half a century later, not everybody held those truths to be self-evident.
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