[72] in libertarians
Re: [vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu: Re: Ballot Access Help]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Tue Jul 12 02:38:31 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 02:33:00 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: damartin@mtl.mit.edu
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>This is a point people often forget. Having a democracy does
not guarantee that the state will respect human rights. The mob can be
just as bad as a dictator.
Unfortunately for the French, they found out how true this was
when they rejected the constitutionalists (who had basically
copied from the US declarations of years earlier). The result
was "the terror" replaced eventually by the dictator Napoleon.
Vernon
