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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by splintercell on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:05AM (#14342116)
America is not a democratic nation (that's like saying all bugs were written by the programmer so all bugs are features). Democracy was tried in Greece and even Romans didn't use it.

The sheer fact that we have a constitution to limit the powers of the democratically elected govt means that we applied a patch on democracy from beginning itself.

If relying on the goodness of the govt were a feature, then we wouldn't need a constitution (which technically isn't even a patch but rather a unit test supplied with the system, which in itself can be modified).

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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by d0lph on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:32PM (#14344410)
A republic is basically democracy with a few extra steps added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by splintercell on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:06PM (#14344678)
Yeah you're not getting the point here. I am trying to show you problem with your thinking about the system, and you think as if I don't know enough to make an ignorant point when it doesn't even look like you read my comment fully.
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