Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1

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From: Ian Johnston
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:01

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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 07:40:13 UTC, JLB <JLB@bigbad.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Ian Johnston wrote:

> > You really, trully believe that having representatives elected in a 
> > secret ballot by universal suffrage is "a fancy name for mob rule"? 
> > Sounds like a pretty bizarre attempt to justify mob rule to me.
> 
> Perhaps you are unaware of the origin of the word democracy or the 
> general contempt it was held in for most of the history of western 
> civilisation?
> 
> The modern fad of (not quite) universal suffrage and elected 
> representatives is a peculiar mutation of what would have been 
> understood by democracy throughout most of the past 2500 years.

Semantic quibbling. Do you or do you not think elected governments 
preferable to mob rule?

Ian

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