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Dictatorship of the Mob

Your reference to dictatorship of the mob applies only to lesser democracies, in particular France. We in the USA have been taught recently to hate the French and I have come to believe that it is the wrong doers doing the teaching. In France not only was the monarchy toppled but so were those with monopoly power. In other words heads of the monied elites were taken right along with the royal heads.

Monopoly really equals Monarchy.

So again let me remind all that it was not the levying of higher taxes on the colonists in America which lead to the Boston Tea Party and eventual declaration of independence from England but rather the removal of a tax.

A monopoly - the east india trading company - used influence on the King of England to have a tax it paid on tea removed. This allowed the monopoly to pass on the savings to the colonists, which they did plus more, to put the competition out of business.

They called the competition "smugglers" but best I can tell the competition was simply businessmen who discovered they could purchase tea from the Dutch less expensively and had made investments and built companies doing just that. The colonists at this time loved England and the King of England but they came to see how monopoly power corrupts even parental units.

This seeing is how the US democracy came to put the Rule of Law first. What this means is that a mob of voters or a mob of monied elite (more likely) can not prevail when the law of the land - specifically anti-trust law, is ignored. We call those who gather together to work around the law wrong doers and their plans are conspiracies and since the start of the USA conspiracy theories are the first believed above all others.

In lesser democracies, the citizenry still believe the parental units (the King and Queen designates - the central government) to be incorruptible. So they go about their lives not seeing and not looking after each other.

I hope this is helpful. We in the USA have especially worked hard at getting this message out after WW II. It has only been during the Microsoft era when there has been forget fullness and a return to EU ways. Those EU ways - the ways of Kings and monopoly power that influences government - are so clearly not our ways. We are about the opposite of that and have always been.

It is very exciting to see that only the USA is ready to benefit from the undeniable economic value of Web 2.0. The value comes from reduced transaction costs and fast identification of products being dumped in the US market (like pet foot, mad cow, leaded products) and stock fraud. We will win the war on terrorism with Web 2.0.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 08/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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