DPRK's consitution.

Apparently, DPRK (Best Korea) is supposed to have MUH FREEDOMS.

Chapter V Article 67 Sections i & ii:
"(1) Citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association.
(2) The State guarantees the conditions for the free activities of democratic political parties and social organizations."

Thoughts?

The same appears in many other dictatorships. It's just part of their game of pretend.

A constitution needs to be more than some good philosophy on a piece of paper.

1950, if Stalin ordered East German troops to shoot protestors they'd do it.

1989, if Gorbachev ordered them to do the same, no officer would want to be the guy who ordered use of force and nothing would happen.

I see.

>>1
And "Soviet Union" translates to english as "Democratic Union", commies called their regime "narodovlastie" (i.e. democracy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
But for some reason all "People" there were Jewish.

>>1
soviet constitution isn't much different from USA either:
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04.html
In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:

freedom of speech;
freedom of the press;
freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
freedom of street processions and demonstrations.



in practice constitution just a piece of propaganda paper. It has no power of itself.

It should also be noted that there are elections each year in North Korea, however no seat is ever contested and all votes are public.

>>8
Sounds like America, with its "two party" system.

>>1
free to say what you like, and free to suffer the consequences

Reminds me of that truism: "In a dictatorship, you can think whatever you want, as long as you don't speak. In a democracy, you can say whatever you want, as long as you don't think."

>>11
This.

The only way to influence a democracy is to stop people thinking, hence why the people who do actual thinking are hated on so much.

For instance this.

http://dis.4chan.org/read/newpol/1356182434/81

The entire thread is about how Ayn Rand didn't oppose kindness and charity, yet despite this he doesn't even contend the points made, just does what he has been programmed to do.

>>9
Actually DPRK has four parties.