On 20 Jul 2001, at 0:15, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >At 11:47 AM 7/19/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM
> >wrote:
> > >Those examples you gave could happen in a dictatorship, not in a
> > >democracy. You see, Kevin, that's why democracy is such a marvelous
> > >thing: if a government would try something like you described, they
> > >would be punished for it in the next election. So, crazy things
> > >like you mentioned just won't happen in a democracy.
> >
> >I find it amazing that you can forget the results of a certain
> >election in Germany back in the day.
>
> <sigh>
>
> John, the fact that *one* democratically elected leader became a
> psychopath dictator, doesn't mean that *all* elected leaders are
> likely to become psychopath dictators.
>
> Besides, we all know what happened back then. Do you really believe we
> would just let such atrocities happen again? When a democratically
> elected leader turns into a second Hitler, do you really think the
> international community wouldn't do anything about it?
Tibet, Milosovitch (took long enough, and only because he screwed
up!), I could cite a dozen more examples.
The "international community" only has as much teeth as basically
Europe and America and willing to grant it...
Andy
Dawn Falcon
