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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 7:08amSanction this postReply
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Tibor,

I always enjoy your "musings" but this was one of your bests. Greatly reasoned. Thank you.

(Edited by Bob Palin on 11/02, 11:42am)




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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 8:09amSanction this postReply
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I love virtually everything Professor Machan writes, but I agree, this is simply astounding. Imagine the state of the world if it's people, including Amercians, really understood: "that you own your life and its works and have sovereign rights over these?" Man, then we'd be cooking with gas!



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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 8:13amSanction this postReply
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Machan wrote: "Alas, the only relief from this bleakness is that an understanding of human individual liberty has only recently begun within the human race and millions of people many other places have even less of a clue about it than people do in America. The idea that you own your life and its works and have sovereign rights over these is so novel, so little understood, let alone practiced, that perhaps one needs a bit of patience with it all."

Thank you for this, Tibor.

John




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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 9:08amSanction this postReply
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An outstandingly clear and concise expose' of the perils of modern democracy, Prof. Machan. Understandings of things don't get much clearer than this. Thank-you.

Ed



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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 12:30pmSanction this postReply
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Tibor, you're a rock, dude.



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Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - 1:22pmSanction this postReply
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Well done, Mr. Machan.



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Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - 2:21amSanction this postReply
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Thanks to all who chimed in with such supporting words.



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Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - 2:41pmSanction this postReply
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Tibor, I share your frustrations, but I have hard time imagining a better way to select political leaders.  The problem, as I see it, is that over the time the Constitution has become trampled to the point that it no longer provides any real limits on the power of government.   



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Friday, November 5, 2004 - 2:23amSanction this postReply
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Exactly, Pete. My musings here echoed Fareed Zakaria's lament in his book The Future of Freedom wherein he criticizes illiberal democracy!



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