From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 13:30:33 MDT
--- Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
>
> >From: Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>
>
> >But in a republic the rights of minorities (even and especially
> >the lone individual) cannot be voted away by any majority in
> >whole or in part. The forgetting of that distinction (or never
> >quite understanding it) is in large part what "went wrong" with
> >America regarding individual rights.
> Next, peoples rights get voted away all the time here, in fact
> if they happen to be white heterosexual males that's considered
> just fine. That is how a group of like minded sportsman stopped
> being a casual group of gun enthusiasts and became the NRA we know
> today.
Brian is quite right here. We see Samantha deriding the influence that
corporations have over the political system, yet she doesn't say boo
about the most influential industrial group in Washington: Hollywood
and the media, which are demonstrably the worst culprit in the erosion
of our republican protections while being predominantly liberal/left
wing oriented. I for one would like to see her comment some on this.
>
> We live in an age in this country of majoritarian tyranny.
>
>
> >A republic is better. It is obvious and was obvious hundreds of
> >years ago that democracy is not an ideal form of government or
> >even the "best possible".
Samantha is entirely right here (more shock waves resound across the
list). The problem is that majoritarian tyranny is jim dandy fine with
most people so long as their own ox isn't being gored. We 2nd Amendment
proponents have been getting gored for well on 68 years to little avail
from the so-called civil rights and civil libertarians movement.
Instead they seem happy that its not them getting Gored, and take part
in the Goering, with dismissals and epithets like 'gun nut', 'red
neck', 'crazed militiaman', while buying into the false associations
and generalizations of gun owners with racists and white supremacists
that call to mind the false associations and generalizations of Jews
with communists and nihilists 60 years ago in europe.
I am sure that Rosie and Hillary and their ilk were toasting the
misfortune of Charlton Heston this weekend.
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