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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!smoke.brl.mil
- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: LONG, rec.guns discussion
- Message-ID: <19377@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:04:32 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
- Lines: 30
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <62013@mimsy.umd.edu> magnum@cs.umd.edu writes:
- # How am I doing?
-
- You're doing fine and I for one much appreciate it.
-
- As a long-time Usenet reader/contributor, I've found that
- unmoderated discussion groups too often get out of hand,
- with some posters being abusive of others and with lots
- of irrelevant junk mail. Consequently I dropped out of
- most of the news groups I had been active in and now
- limit my participation to moderated groups only.
-
- I cringe when I hear the word "democracy". The proper
- meaning for that is essentially, strict majority rule.
- Thus democracies do not protect the rights of minorities
- and especially rights of individuals. The USA's founding
- fathers were well aware of that and attempted to establish
- our government as a representative republic, thinking that
- the "buffer" of thoughtful, educated men between the
- public masses and those potentially affected by government
- laws and policies would, in conjunction with a constitution
- clearly limiting the sanctioned powers of the various
- levels of government, help to protect the rights of all
- citizens. However, decades of control of education by
- socialist thinkers has managed to override this worthwhile
- original goal, and I do not know if it can be recovered.
-
- Anyway, unmoderated Usenet is not democracy, it's anarchy.
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-