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To: Dale Baker who wrote (114526)	7/3/2009 2:00:39 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541866

>>Better the angry mob than the bloodthirsty, power-mad kleptocracies that inevitably exist in their place.<< Two words - "Tutsi, Hutu". Or alternatively "Cultural Revolution". The nobility of the masses is certainly as impaired as that of a potentate, if not more so. The problem with a benevolent dictator is the change of power. Kim Jong il is that in the extreme and should serve as a cautionary example - but potentates have a sense of self-preservation that mobs don't have. Rwanda or North Korea. On average people in North Korea are alive - not living well, but most or almost all alive, without amputations, AIDs from a brutal rape, or simply having an ugly death.