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To: TimF who wrote (27341)	8/29/2006 3:15:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541941

Tim, you are letting your ideological bent get in the way of seeing. At the local, grassroots level of the sort of places I'm talking about, them is us. If one has a problem with the local police, council, fire folk, you name it, it's not a tyranny exercising itself, it's all of us who ask them to do their jobs. However well or badly they perform them. I'm not arguing that every small government is such. I can imagine ones in which the term "tyranny" might apply. There is, in fact, one such down the road "apiece" as we used to say in the Lone Star, which has had the same mayor for twenty or thirty years and is clearly a fiefdom. So there are demographic reasons at play. I'm only objecting to the blanket use of the term "tyranny" to describe the relation between government and citizens. But it doesn't apply in small settings in which folk have reasonable access to correcting matters, in which the rotation through elected government offices is frequent and rapid.