From: Tim Griffiths <T.G.Griffiths@exeter.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 20:44:47 +0800
To: mark@unicorn.com
Subject: Re: democracy?! (Re: Terrorism is a NON-THREAT
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Mark wrote:
> 
> Jim Choate wrote:

> Indeed. Yet in a democracy, any two other members are assumed to know
> better than me, and any 51% to know better than the other 49%.
> 
> Democracy is merely the scoundrel's last attempt to maintain the divine
> right of kings by coverting it into the divine right of the elected. 
> 
> >Which means we should have the lowest number of incarcerated individuals
> >instead of the most.

Does it? Or does it mean that we potentially have 49% of the population
in jail for any particular act, deemed to be a crime by the remaining 51%?

Tim G.