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

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From: Ian Johnston
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:57

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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:32:07 UTC, JLB <JLB@bigbad.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Ian Johnston wrote:
> > Semantic quibbling. Do you or do you not think elected governments 
> > preferable to mob rule?
> 
> My opinion on that question has no bearing at all on the issue of 
> whether the features (secret ballots, representatives etc) earlier 
> alluded to are necessary & defining for democracy. They are clearly not.

Nonsense. They are clearly entirely necessary for defining democracy 
nowadays: how it was defined two thousand years ago is interesting but
utterly irrelevant.

You claim that democracy and mob rule are identical is both ludicrous 
and an insult to those who have campaigned, suffered and died for 
modern democracy over the years.

Ian

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