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Doubtful Avenger Wrote: May 09, 2012 1:25 PM

There are tyrannies of the majority, so your statement, while generally plausible, is not universally true. We don't enforce the will of the majority in this republic (not democracy), we have rules that require a substantial majority, tempered by the constitution and rule of law. The fact that people, judges, and governments abuse the protection of the law to suit their own purposes does not change the fact that the untempered majority can be as bad as the minocracy.

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The Moral Infrastructure

The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created.

The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens.

How did the "Occupy" movement acquire such immunity from the laws that the rest of us are expected to obey? Simply by shouting politically correct...

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