Democracy is our enemy

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Mon Sep 24 22:49:34 PDT 2001


On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:22:34AM -0000, Anonymous wrote:
> There was an article the other day about the terrorists, which made the
> point that capitalism and fundamentalism were much alike, in that both
> share a distrust of democracy.  The same can be said for the cypherpunks.

Difference: Cypherpunks distrust democracy, at least unfettered from its
democratic republic roots in the U.S., because it has proven an uncertain
safeguard of liberty. Bin Laden & co distrust democracy because it permits
too much liberty.

-Declan





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