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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (28465)	2/5/2003 7:48:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

<The King of Bhutan is a benevolent benefactor to his people. The President of the U.S. is a malevolent master of his. You do see the difference, right? > Indeed I do. Democracy is not the harbinger of freedom that the more rabid of its proponents believe. Being a melanin-rich voter in the deep south of the USA 100 or 150 years ago would convince one that freedom and a good life is not necessarily part of democracy. Similarly, a King is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a King has got very good reason to try to keep things on the straight and narrow with happy citizenry than an elected official such as King George II who has a private life and will return to it after dabbling in the corridors of power for a few years, leaving the country to tidy itself up if he makes a mess. A King is stuck with being the King and had better keep things good. Similarly, the population quite likes peace, light, harmony, happiness, beauty, prosperity, longevity and love. Royal families around the world have got a fairly reasonable track record. Japan's has run for 1000 years or maybe it's more. New Zealand's has run since Queen Victoria was signed up as being the one in charge. Today is the commemoration of that event back in 1840. "Waitangi Day" and "Treaty of Waitangi" if you want to ask Google about it. You could add "Black tee shirt" "Mike Smith" "Ken Mair" "Titewhai" "Hongi Hika" if you want to see that all hasn't been totally harmonious. But as you can see from those anglophone names, Mike and Ken, not to mention Winston Peters and hordes more, there has been quite a blending of the cultures, as well as DNA. So for all the acrimony, it's a fairly tightly knit little world. Highly suicidal and lately quite thieving and violent too, but still pretty good. The problem with the GDH is that it's government run, by decree, not run by people manifesting their own minds. Reading that stuff about Bhutan shows it's not all as lovey-dovey as it made out on the surface. Some want tv. Others don't. Cyberspace? More tourists? Oh, woe... Mqurice PS: Some Oz idiom escapes me.