Quote Originally Posted by DuncanONeil View Post
" Originally Posted by DuncanONeil View Post
While it may be in the section related to "public health" the issue of a license is really only the Government force."
The governments are certainly not going to start publishing a category of laws or regulations entitled "Government Control of the Poplulation"!

Assuming you don't mean "population control" as it is usually understood, nobody would use that category because it would include everything. One uses classes smaller than the class of all classes, not to deceive, but to be precise.
Whether or you can have a license to conduct business is an example of "government force:, do it our way or you can't do anything!
Well, yes, I'm afraid living under a government does tend to have that effect. It's called "the rule of law." But be of good cheer, there are still places left in this world where there is no rule of law and your only protection is to be faster with a gun than the next man; nobody will stop you moving there and living the noble free life for as long as you last.
The above Constitutional references are not "bagatelles"! But what is it you are trying to say in referring to them?
I'm saying that the people who fear for the Constitution because a President wants to give healthcare to the poor didn't seem worried about a previous incumbent putting citizens in jail without trial and forbidding protest demonstrations. Just, you know, noticing these things.
No one I know, or with any education claims the US is a Democracy!

My mistake. I grew up in the Cold War, when every debate was framed in terms of the US defending and promoting democracy. But Americans often try to impose institutions on other nations that they wouldn't want at home: I just hadn't realised that this was one such.[/quote]
The US is a Democratic Republic. As such it has functioned quite well under the rules of establishment. Now we have a cadre of people that are seeking to eliminate the rules of establishment. Seems to me that such an attempt qualifies as a threat!!
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In most European countries it would be called liberation - so much so that even our conservatives have to present themselves to the voters as the foes of the establishment. But I am beginning to understand much better why the political rules I know don't work in your country. You seem to have a lot more in common with the Russians, who are also pining for the days when they lived under an autocracy and knew where they stood.