Thomas Hobbes on Athenian Democracy (was Re: Voter Fraud, Warren Christopher etc.)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Christopher Susi wrote:
>
>>Given the statistic I heard the past few days that 94% of blacks vote
>>democrat, I can be pretty safe in saying a significant number of those
>>rioters were democrats.  I'm sure you can draw similar conclusions looking
>>at the demographics of the other groups who were tearing up the city because
>>a couple of over-active pituitary cases (most of whom wern't even from their
>>city) were able to stick a ball in a hoop.  You can call me racist. I call
>>it deduction.
>
>Can I call you an asshole too?
>
>Doug

I'd rather see a revival of a venerable Athenian custom & have it 
applied to not only American politicians but Christopher Susis of the 
USA:

*****   In the same manner, the people of _Athens_, when they 
banished the most potent of their Common-wealth for ten years, 
thought they committed no Injustice; and yet they never questioned 
what crime he had done; but what hurt he would doe: Nay they 
commanded the banishment of they knew not whom; and every Citizen 
bringing his Oystershell into the market place, written with the name 
of him he desired should be banished, without actually accusing him, 
sometimes banished an _Aristides_, for his reputation of Justice; And 
sometimes a scurrilous Jester, as _Hyperbolus_, to make a Jest of it. 
And yet a man cannot say, the Soveraign People of _Athens_ wanted 
right to banish them; or an _Athenian_ the Libertie to Jest, or to be 
Just.   (Thomas Hobbes, _Leviathan_, Chapter XXI)   *****

Yoshie