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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28470)	2/5/2003 8:17:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Royal families around the world have got a fairly reasonable track record. And even better publicists. :) Re: New Zealand's has run since Queen Victoria was signed up as being the one in charge. I was amused to find out recently that Ronald Reagan's great imperial conquest of the 1980's, Grenada, had and still has the Queen of England as the head of state. Who knew she could be heading such a Marxist regime? -Ray

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28470)	2/5/2003 9:20:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 74559

Maurice, house.gov HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 29, 2003 Sorry, Mr. Franklin, “We’re All Democrats Now” Introduction "At the close of the Constitutional Conventional in 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquisitive citizen that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gave the people “a Republic, if you can keep it.” We should apologize to Mr. Franklin. It is obvious that the Republic is gone, for we are wallowing in a pure democracy against which the Founders had strongly warned. Madison, the father of the Constitution, could not have been more explicit in his fear and concern for democracies. “Democracies,” he said, “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.” If Madison’s assessment was correct, it behooves those of us in Congress to take note and decide, indeed, whether the Republic has vanished, when it occurred, and exactly what to expect in the way of “turbulence, contention, and violence.” And above all else, what can we and what will we do about it?..." Regards, Don

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28470)	2/5/2003 10:37:09 PM
From: Wildstar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

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. Great post. Perhaps the biggest myth perpetuated by public schooling is the notion that democracy = liberty.