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To: Ilaine who wrote (82383)	10/30/2011 12:13:48 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 218135

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government." GKC "No society can survive the socialist fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them." GKC

To: Ilaine who wrote (82383)	10/30/2011 12:53:33 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218135

"We'd still be the same imperfect people we are now. Right now, after thousands of years of effort, the people rule. In anarchy and chaos, only the strong rule." I have faith in computer operated systems. Recently the land title system in certain parts of Canada was switched to computer. If your mining claims lapses at midnight there is no mining recorder to go to have an emotional breakdown in front of. There is no taking the computer out for lunch to gain favour with. There is no high priced lawyer to intimidate the computer. Corruption has been virtually eliminated. Democracy is not what made the US system percolate along ahead of all others for 200 years. "The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule . . . a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights . . . . The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights." from the Ayn Rand Lexicon