>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Tyranny of the Majority
>> One example I had in mind was Rwanda. Majority rule or
>> minority rule, same result: genocide. Solution: compromise
>> candidate with approval from both extremes.
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D- Give me a break. I must digress a bit again from *pure* election methods.
Did the folks being killed in Rwanda (or any other place for the last zillion
years of political history (or pre-history) have *equal* weapons to defend
themselves against the de facto minority with weapons who were doing the
killing ???
Almost ALL of political history has been de facto minority rule monarchs/
oligarchs using their military/ police forces to oppress folks in other
countries (i.e. wars, invasions) or their own countries (domestic
oppressions, civil wars),
*Real* majority rule democracies have been few and far between (if any have
really existed) for day to day type laws --- how many cops are on the streets
to protect folks against criminals violating the life, liberty or property
rights of others--- how many jails for convicted criminals --- etc.
Instead the so-called *modern* state is involved in all sorts of social-
economic- political machinations for some sort of state purposes (with the
resulting consequences).
