Is Nomen Nomescio John McCain?
Tabla bin Rasa
tbr at bora.com
Tue Dec 11 20:55:04 PST 2001
At 08:20 PM 12/11/01 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>Danny Popkin writes:
>> > Rather, the problem with AP is that it is mob rule at its worst.
>>
>> Worse than the secret ballot?
>
>Much worse. With a secret ballot you need to get a majority to support
>any particular position. That's a significant hurdle to overcome.
>But with AP any small group of people that can put up enough money to
>hire an assassin can get their way. The going rate for a murder is
>around $5-10K to off an average person, more if he's heavily guarded.
>If 100 people put up $100 each then that's enough to get someone
killed.
>
>Imagine a secret ballot where any measure to increase government power
>would pass if it received as few as 100 votes. How much freedom would
>you have left in such a society? That's what AP represents.
Hilarious, you sound like John McCain whining about campaign
donations...
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