-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > IE: That a Democratic Republic has a better chance of averting > catastrophe than an Oligarchy. > > History tends to prove my point.
I beg to disagree. History proves the exact opposite point. The last great democracy before ours, in Athens, lasted a mere couple of hundred of years and was continually marked by in-fighting and wars of conquest, with the mob appeal of conquest being the eventual fall of Athens. On the other hand, great oligarchies, such as the Roman Catholic Church, have lasted for at least 1,500 years -- and some would argue that its reach has been nearly the full 2 millenia of its existence. Don't claim to use history to prove a point if you don't know your history! Jon Kibler - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o: 843-849-8214 c: 843-813-2924 (NEW!) s: 843-564-4224 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpoNqcACgkQUVxQRc85QlM/IACdG/YkMD1q2mYYN5j2mpFKIOiB FKkAnRDlz0IEgxEZgI8bBUwpK/lRPrFE =9Zoo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
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