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To: Robert Teesdale
I must disagree. You are insinuating that freedom and the rights of Man are on some level contradictive to the principles of conservatism.

On the contrary, I am insinuating that "democracy" is on many levels contradictive to freedom, natural rights, and Conservatism. A democracy may well look like a free society for quite some time, but ultimately, it collapses. Why? First, people discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. Second, large democracies are just plain chaotic. Best go with a constitutional republic or constitutional parliamentary monarchy. The key is to clearly define the power of the centralized power and make the system gradually more democratic as you get more local.

Not to mention, of course, their unfortunate stranglehold on a large portion of an essential strategic resource.

If people would only get over their hangups about nuclear energy, it might not be essential for too much longer.

15 posted on 04/30/2004 10:02:16 AM PDT by MegaSilver (Training a child in red diapers is the cruelest and most unusual form of abuse.)
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To: MegaSilver
Your point clarified, I agree fully.
16 posted on 04/30/2004 10:36:30 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale
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