wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:59:49 GMT, Brian Whatcott
wrote:


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:14:16 -0500, Joe Bleau
wrote:


If there were any justice in Massachusetts Ted Kennedy would be in
jail for the death of Mary Jo Koeckne.

Joe

And Bush would be in jail in Texas for that little Marijuana habit of
his?

Brian W


and either of you is surprised that the powerful and well connected
slide past the laws the rest of us have to live by?


I think that's something everyone can agree on. Its been the way of
the world for thousands of years. Even the great "democracies" of the
past, such as Athens, only survived thanks to a large slave population
and were controlled by wealthy families.

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:42:40 -0500, Jeff Morris
wrote:


I think that's something everyone can agree on. Its been the way of
the world for thousands of years. Even the great "democracies" of the
past, such as Athens, only survived thanks to a large slave population
and were controlled by wealthy families.

Uh, the same situation pertained in Revolutionary America. The
slave-owning merchant/farmer class could afford the leisure created by
essentially free labour to mull over republican democracy.

The results turned out better than in Republican Athens or Rome for
the average (wage) slave, but the irony is that indentured or slave
labour made democracy more likely.

R.