Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
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Only if I'm guilty, I'm O.J. and the jury is blackyour better off with the jurySplit hairs all you want, but Hitler won within the system they had. End of story. Good people voted for his program.I dont think morsi was given enough of a chance.......your giving the result of an "election" after hitler had already beeen ruling and consolidating power...illegitimate...dcraelinHitler used a form of direct/popular democracy to take over.
What in the world are you talking about?
Popular democracy breeds the type of democracy we saw during the Arab Spring. I for one loathed what would result -- proven on that one.
so you like the egyption regiem now....didnt they condemn 30 journalists to death or long prison terms some months back...didnt here how all that turned out..
as far as I know Morisi didnt do anything that bad
A plebiscite, not an election. The Nazi party won free elections.
Good gawd, what's with the false choices? The regime now is a direct result of the Arab Spring. People who fail to grasp the concepts without an experience of democracy and republicanism always cause great harm with good intentions.
Direct democracy and the concept that winner takes all, that 50 plus 1 means one gets to do what one wants without recognition that a huge minority needs to be brought in. Was Egypt was better off under Mubarak?
Morsi was terrible. He brought about the coup
dont understand you point about plebiscite and elections...Hitler never won, honestly, a 50% plus election.
what made the majority in america want the bill of rights?...the majority if honeslty asked is usually pretty fair....now religious conflict can be a problem as the English know also....but still ultimately the most pratical/fair way to iron things our is democracy
Morsi was given more than a chance, but he was ill equipped and too inexperienced to govern adequately. He was in charge -- he gets the blame. Unless of course you feel sorry for our little brown cousins who need patronizing?
In the constitutional convention: The minority wanted the Bill of Rights. Look at the first constitution in Massachusetts and at Virginia's. Look at the progression of the arguments for and against an enumerated bill of rights. The majority if asked on any given day will lock up every Japanese American during war time hysteria or demand fairness for them when things calm down. Do not ever make the mistake of putting your life in the hands of the majority.
Me, I'd usually ask for a trial by Judge rather than by Jury depending on the reputation of the court and Judge.