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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117243)	11/11/2003 2:09:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<The only difference between crime and war is scale. If one person points a gun at me and takes something from me (my life, my freedom, my money) that's crime. If a million people do it to a million other people (using exactly the same methods, for exactly the same goals), that's war.> .... or democracy. The majority votes to keep other groups repressed or to take their property or freedom. Even their lives. My father's cousin, a WWI hero, was gaoled in WWII for speaking against the war. Democracy bears a similar relationship to freedom as a naughty weekend does to marriage. There is nothing especially moral or ethical about democracy, despite all the puffing and posturing by those presuming to instruct others in the wonders of civilization. It's just bullying, kleptocracy, thievery and murder by a different name and with the benefits spread more widely than the more usual totalitarian dominance hierarchies. The adulation of democracy has developed quite cult-like characteristics. Mqurice

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