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To: OWK
What upsets me is aguments that say it is either, or. Democracy vs. Republic. We live in a Constitutional Repulic that is a democracy. Clear. I mean do you really think the system is broken? That you are being oppressed by the tyrrannical minority? Are people that agree with, good, and people who disagree, evil? By your standards, who assert democracy as an inherent good in itself, who are destroying the notions of rights and liberty, and aiding the progression toward our inevitable doom Am I evil?
1,093 posted on 10/21/2003 2:01:40 PM PDT by Madame de Winter
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To: Madame de Winter
I mean do you really think the system is broken?

Potentially beyond repair.. yes.

That you are being oppressed by the tyrrannical minority?

Not a tyrannical minority

A tyranical majority.

Who think it is their business to tell me what firearms I may own...

Or that I may not own them at all..

Or how many gallons my toilet must flush.

Or what I may eat and drink.

Or that I may not buy antibiotics without their permission.

Or who I must associate with, whether I choose to or not.

They rob me to pay for the education of people I've never heard of.

And to pay for "arts and humanities"

And to pay for pork projects in Podunk.

And to pay for fat lazy people to recieve a government check.

And to promote ideas I oppose.

And to buy substitute drugs for drug addicts.

And to provide housing for the irresponsible.

And to give people credit cards to buy free food.

And to operate "public" television and radio.

And to snoop on my internet communications.

And to confiscate toenail clippers at airports.

Your precious democracy votes to steal what is mine, and to give it to others who have not earned. It votes to subjugate and control my dominion over my own otherwise peaceful life. It is evil that is done by your precious majority. And all the while, "democracy" is bandied about as if it represents some precious and unassailable good, in and of itself.

Are people that agree with, good, and people who disagree, evil?

People that steal from me are evil (even if they do so under cover of democracy).

People that violate my rights are evil (even if they do so under cover of democracy).

Am I evil?

You tell me.

1,095 posted on 10/21/2003 2:19:26 PM PDT by OWK
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To: Madame de Winter
I can't believe you have been here for almost two years and ask a question like this.

It is usually why one joins FR is because the system is broken.

Do you listen to any talk shows?

1,135 posted on 10/21/2003 9:58:03 PM PDT by restornu
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