For those who keep going on and on about the cruelty and barbarity of the US, its justice system, and its society, a nicely contrasting UPI article about a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan for adultery.
(Via OpinionJournal)
30 view(s)
Civilization
For those who keep going on and on about the cruelty and barbarity of the US, its justice system, and its society, a nicely contrasting UPI article about a woman…
somebody dig up that heinlein quote about democracy. ugh.
“Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.”
— Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love”
That the one?
no, the one about it being a terrible system of government, but better than anything else…
Churchill, actually, and even he just paraphrased it:
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.”