Sheep and Security and Lambs with Kalshnikov's

[Dave Bird]

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In article <200009151107.MAA00163@taggart.ftel.co.uk>, Ian G Batten
<I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> writes
>You write:
>> SNIP
>> >
>> >You'd get similar figures on the contention that paedophiles should have
>> >their houses burnt down or, indeed, that perverts and terrorists who
>> >used encryption to hide their communication should have it read by
>> >force.  People don't, by and large, phone in to disagree with
>> >self-selecting polls.
>> >
>> 
>> I can't argue with that, but that then begs the question, do we do as the
>> "people" (Gettysburg address etc) or do we do as the Intelligensia say?
>
>If 51% of the population vote to shoot the remaining 49%, that's
>``democracy'' of a sort.  But the reason societies construct various
>mechanisms to guard basic rights is to prevent just this sort of
>situation.
             I couldn't resist.........

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 DEMOCRACY: two wolves & a lamb     LIBERTY: a lamb with a kalashnikov
        voting what's for lunch     contesting  the  vote
          

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