How about "You're free, now choose your leader." Shocking it must be
to be able to vote without the risk of death.

On 12/2/05, Gruss Gott wrote:
> No, because the people have empowered the police to carry guns to
> enforce publicly enacted law.
>
> The broader point it's ill-advised to oust an existing gov't (that's
> been around for multiple generations) by gunpoint, and then tell the
> citizens, "ok, you're new system of gov't is democratic.  Go vote."
>
> Odds of success seem really low under those conditions, but, in this
> case, there had been a groundswell after the first gulf war.  Whether
> all of those community leaders were killed or not, I dunno.  You sure
> don't see much bottom-up democracy though.

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