[SierraWasp]

Government is pure FORCE! A government tempered by the direct will of the people is mob FORCE! Representative republican govenment with a democratic selection process is tempered by popularly selected judgement which is still imperfect unless constitutional standards are FIXED, not flexible!!!

Judgement without temperment of a democratically approved constitution can easily become tyranny of the democratically selected. Electeds who bend and break the FIXED constitutional standards are not to be trusted right along with judges that do the same thing.

Government is NOT your friend even when properly restrained, due to human nature. Human nature is VERY predictable. History records and predicts it's course. Human nature is NOT your friend, either!!!

Celebrity worship is one of the worst traits of human nature and should be feared!!! The Huns, Vandals, Goths and Visigoths were lead by celebrities who slew their fellow man as did Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. "Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!"

[B4Ranch]

Why is this being suggested in just California?
Have you folks done something to make Arnie nervous?
Which one of you put the thorn under his saddle blanket?

[calcowgirl]

A government tempered by the direct will of the people is mob FORCE!

Is it any wonder that Arnold adopted the mantra "Let the People Decide"?
The phrase was an official slogan of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s.