The Purest Democracy

by nordstrom on Apr.12, 2009, under Uncategorized

Original Post: http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fuSdGi84sd1Z

Residents of Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi watch as the bodies of three bandits who allegedly tried to rob a house burn after they were set on fire by an angry mob in a street, in Karachi on May 14, 2008. The city police said two of the three alleged robbers burnt by the angry mob died on the spot while the third succumbed to wounds at a hospital later. City police Chief Babar Khattak said the incident showed increasing violent behavior within the society and any case against those responsible for the act would be decided after a police inquiry.

Without a Republic there can be no justice. A pure Democracy is one of Mob Rule. The United States Founding Fathers were very precise to stay clear of a democratic form of governance. Democracy Now?

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
—Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy … wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams

“Democracy is the most vile form of government… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention… incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”
—James Madison

“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and … breaks up the foundations of society.”
—Thomas Jefferson