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In article <1992Aug12.001838.14325@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com  writes:
>
>>     Do you realize that if the New World Order takes hold,
>>     there will be no place to hide?
>
>Why would you have to hide?  Are you breaking any laws or something
>     that would make you want to hide?

That's a singularly stupid statement. If you were living in a country
that decided to exterminate jews, would you happily obey the law?
Suppose you were a jew. Stupid, dangerous, and vicious laws have been 
passed throughout history by dictatorships *and* by democracies. Mob rule 
is one of the most dangerous kinds of rule, look at the French revolution,
or early Soviet Union for examples of what happens when the will of the 
majority is unchecked. Or look at the US where the majority (white)
considered it proper to enslave a minority (black) and passed *laws*
enforcing that condition. Would you obey the law and return a runaway
slave to his rightful owner? Would you do it knowing he would be whipped
to within an inch of his life, or perhaps actually killed? A place to
hide is sometimes vital when the howling mob decides to impose their
*majority* will on some hapless minority.

Our founding fathers partially saw this danger called democracy. That's
why the US is not a democracy. It's a constitutional republic with some
democratic elements. The system of checks and balances on majority whim
is an attempt to mitigate the horrors of the mob. It's fallible because
it's operated by fallible men, but it's better than any purely democratic
alternative in protecting the rights of individuals.

Gary