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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (718761)5/31/2013 4:09:40 PM
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I know exactly how I "sound."

Two concepts are diametrically opposed (individual rights and freedoms vs socialism and collective control). Democratic decision making does not include the oppression of individuals or the violations of inalienable rights under our Constitution. We have a Constitution that begins with the protection of individual rights because minorities must be protected against the tyranny of the majority, right down to a minority of one.

Democracy absent protections for natural individual rights is simply a tyranny of the many over the few.

"The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves." -- John Locke

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816

"Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval." -- W.A. Lewis

"You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?' " -- Neal Boortz
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