"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > At 03:31 PM 12/24/01 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote: > >Criticising your government does not do harm to people. > > I'd just point out that in Israel, the foremost critic of the government > was made the government's Foreign Minister.
Well yeah, but in a parlimentary system sometimes you have the strangest bed-fellows in order to hold your government together. > So, please, please, please, spare me the sad day for democracy violin-speech. Yeah, its a little over the top -j- -- "O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention!"
