Lewis D. Eigen Quotes
That’s one difficulty about a democracy. Nothing ever gets decided—even after its been decided.
Lewis D. Eigen, Associate Director, U. S. Job Corps (Democrat), Director, National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, Technologist, Historian & Writer, Remarks, National Coalition of Children of Alcoholics, July 11, 2013
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Husayn Ali Nuri. Some societies require consensus for action. Others act by majority vote. The Bahai founder set forth this process which attempts to get consensus, but if that fails, the majority then prevails.
Referring to the narrowly drawn censure resolution of Joseph R. McCarthy that passed the Senate:
This was his version of the governing body of a republican commonwealth. His assumption was that the ablest men would be the nobility, the educated and religious (Catholic) elite.
Kishi was an ultra conservative who was one of the politicians who signed the Declaration of War against the U. S. and then served in the Japanese War Cabinet and was the Minister of Commerce and Industry. In the latter post he presided over and made policies about the utilization of slave labor and brutal and illegal treatment of prisoners of war. After Japan’s surrender he was jailed as a “Class A” war crimes suspect along with several other cabinet ministers. In 1948, General MacArthur decided not to prosecute the Cabinet Ministers as he had decided not to prosecute the Emperor Hirohito. His brother was the secretary to the prime minister’s cabinet who had arranged a job for him. However, all the people in government were now building a democratic government. Being a right wing pro military, pro empire politician was no longer feasible and he discovered all his ex-colleagues who hated democracy before were now extolling its virtues. He went with the flow, and reorganized his political constituency, and gained control of the Diet, but now they were all democrats. Then he became prime minister. He was an ardent anti-communist and the Cold War was raging so his previous right wing dictatorial, pro war positions and his war crimes were overlooked by MacArthur and the allies.
Lewis D. Eigen is the Senior Research Scientist & Chief Technology Officer at BEA Enterprises Inc. based in Potomac, Maryland, USA. He has worked as Mathematician, Psychologist, Technologist. Software Engineer, Government & Corporate Executive (Public & Private Corporations), Educator, Quotation Compiler & Editor. He is the author of 13 books, over 100 research articles and papers, over 500 multi-media training modules and more than a dozen computer products / systems. In government he has served as the First Associate Director of the U. S. Job Corps, the Director of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and as a member of the the Johnson Task Force for the War on Poverty, the MacNamara Commission on Military Transition to Civilian Life, and as a Senior Editor and Peer Reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.
