Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"Tyranny Grows When Majority Rules The Law"
I wish more people WOULD think about it!...
Walter E. Williams writes in an Investors Business Daily editiorial:
"Think about it.
How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process?
How about the decision whether you should watch a football game on television or "Law & Order"?
What about whether you drive a Chevrolet or a Ford, or whether your Easter dinner is turkey or ham?
Were such decisions made in the political arena, most of us would deem it tyranny.
Why isn't it also tyranny for the democratic process to mandate what type of light bulbs we use, how many gallons of water to flush toilets or whether money should be taken out of our paycheck for retirement?"
