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ER — 5/16/2012 7:48:11 PM (archived)

Athens was a democracy. Rome was a republic. At least, it started off that way.

You are so paranoid of government power, but you never once recognize the tyranny of wealth.
Money trumps parliaments and kings because it can afford to buy them.

Its lawyers, guns and money that rule the world, not the "rabble".

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Suing the Senate over the filibuster! - BuckGalaxy - 5/16/2012 7:30:26 AM
- The filibuster is a simple Senate rule, that could be changed by majority of the Senate. - TB - 5/16/2012 3:35:34 PM
  - I guess you missed that chart? - BuckGalaxy - 5/16/2012 3:55:52 PM
    - Re: I guess you missed that chart? - TB - 5/16/2012 4:27:18 PM
- The trouble with flywheels - ER - 5/16/2012 11:32:58 AM
  - It is a myth that "nobody knows" what the framers intended. - TB - 5/16/2012 3:19:50 PM
    - Of course we know what the framers iintended. - ER - 5/16/2012 4:13:37 PM
      - The function of the Constitution was to construct a Federal government that could not, hopefully, become a tyranny. - TB - 5/16/2012 4:42:56 PM
        
        figs, apples and oranges. - ER - 5/16/2012 5:35:09 PM
        
        The founders did not give a fig about democracy - ER - 5/16/2012 5:01:09 PM
        
        Democracy, unrestrained, is three wolves and two sheep deciding what's for supper. - TB - 5/16/2012 7:08:04 PM
        
        As a Shepherd... - Robert - 5/16/2012 11:50:18 PM
        
        Re: As a Shepherd... - TB - 5/17/2012 12:14:29 AM
        
        I've always admired the Greeks more than the Romans. - ER - 5/16/2012 7:19:34 PM
        
        Re: I've always admired the Greeks more than the Romans. - TB - 5/16/2012 7:41:21 PM
        
        You responded before I finished editing. - ER - 5/16/2012 7:48:11 PM
        
        We've been over the historical comparison between state abuses and abuses of private wealth. - TB - 5/16/2012 9:56:32 PM
        
        Death camps mean Mao and Stalin were butchers. - ER - 5/16/2012 11:57:34 PM

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