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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Cogito who wrote (79800)10/9/2006 8:27:49 PM
From: TimFRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
You keep distorting my statements and opinions. I don't think you are doing it on purpose, you just seem to not understand them.

"Based on force" doesn't mean "the people on the losing side of any election only go along with the results because they fear arrest or something if they don't."

Look at a place like Sweden, a neutral country with a vestigial army. Is it really force that keeps that country from sliding into anarchy or revolution?

OK lets look at Sweden. See how long even such a stable neutral country lasts if its government swears off all use of force (not just by the national government but by the Län and länsstyrelse, and any other form of local government within Sweden) and sticks to that pledge no matter what.
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