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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (124017)	1/30/2004 1:26:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<I would include denial of personal property as a major issue since most of these nations have only rudimentary, or literally no, actual property rights for anyone other than the power elite. It's all a matter of where governmental authority derives from.. the people, or the barrel of a gun.> Hawk, let's not get too romantic about the beauty of the power of the proletariat as expressed through the ballot box, though that's better than the alternatives. Democracy brings us poverty in India, negro suppression in the first half of the 20th century in parts of the USA and even slavery before universal suffrage was established, women with limited rights in the USA, NZ and other democracies [ignoring the pedantry that the USA isn't a democracy; it is]. Hitler was initially elected. NZ currently is creating an apartheid system despite the lessons of racism over a century of horror. Earners are robbed by welfare recipients who are bribed by their political patrons. Mqurice