On 01/11/06, Kelli Halliburton wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 04:57 pm, Dave Haynie wrote: >> Any system of government can eventually become a tyranny, and once >> you've hit that, the differences, left/right, etc. are meaningless... >> they all wind up in effectively the same place, simply because this >> inherently a degenerate state. Once a single individual or group have >> ultimate authority, there's no system of government other than the >> whim of the leader(s). > > This was Orwell's point. And the big questions are, how to prevent this from happening, and how to rectify it when it does happen. Regards -- Don Cox doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx