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Mon Feb-23-09 11:37 PM
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31. we are responsible - for everything

This is a representative democracy. We are all responsible for it, and we all pay a heavier price when things go wrong then the rulers ever pay.

One of the most important ways to honor that responsibility is to speak out. That is the most gutsy and also the most powerful thing we can ever do.

Telling people to leave to to the rulers, because they are smarter, or have a hard job, or know more than we do is to promote tyranny. Tyranny always starts with a public that is passive, obedient and silent.

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