[SampleMan]

Citizens in police states do not have the ability to influence police procedure and can in fact be imprisoned or executed for merely questioning police procedure.

Wrong, again. What is that, like 20 times now?

You think democracy is all the freedom you need, but democracy only protects the simple majority.

In your world, it is OK to run roughshod over people, just as long as it is in accordance with the wishes of the majority.

[Zhang Fei]

Wrong, again. What is that, like 20 times now? You think democracy is all the freedom you need, but democracy only protects the simple majority. In your world, it is OK to run roughshod over people, just as long as it is in accordance with the wishes of the majority.

You're entitled to your definition of tyranny. But the reality is that calling someone a tyrant has no consequences in NYC, whereas calling Hitler a tyrant in Nazi Germany would have resulted in arrest, torture and perhaps execution. And that's the difference between actual tyranny and a pale facsimile of the real thing - it's sort of like the difference between terminal cancer and a paper cut.