A key point in favor of representative government as opposed
to flat out democracy is that the people, in the lump, are ignorant, stupid,
and malevolent.
The representatives are, one hopes, better than that.
The difference is often less than one would wish.
Note that Jay Carney at the White House bragged of American freedom
of expression on the very day Terry Jones, harassed, intimidated, and bullied
by the White House and numerous American political and police officials, was
again arrested for preparing to express himself freely, and thus again
prevented from doing so by the coercive and repressive power of the state.
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