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   A. Filip to Offline Surfer   
   Re: Property v. democracy   
   26 Feb 25 23:06:17   
   
   From: anfi@wp.eu   
      
   Offline Surfer  wrote:   
   > Under democracy, private property is respected.   
   >   
   > Do not take private property without consent or fair compensation.   
      
   Under modern democracies private property is *usually* *sufficiently*   
   respected.   
      
   Has USA abolished LEGAL private property of slaves   
   *without compensation* AFAIK.   
      
   https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janusz_Korwin-Mikke   
   > Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an   
   > island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to   
   > sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even   
   > put that in the constitution.   
   >   source: speech during a meeting in the R. Barbosa High School   
      
   --   
   A. Filip   
   | It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.   
   | (Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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