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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by lbeltrame on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:36AM (#32789396)
Freedom of assembly and movement, for one. My country had seventy days of armed soldiers out to enforce a lockdown. That was done by completely violating the constitution and the rule of law. It was done with an administrative act, bypassing all checks and balances.

Afterwards, a year later unvaccinated people were denied access to public transport and even work (note that a mandate would've been lawful instead, just not the vaccine pass scheme implemented).

All of this with an overwhelmingly high support for these measures. It was a de facto tiranny of the majority.

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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by lbeltrame on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:38AM (#32789404)
Oh and even afterwards protests were forbidden for a while to "avoid hurting the economic recovery". Again, most were favorable.
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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by happymellon on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:44AM (#32789434)
> It was a de facto tiranny of the majority.

Isnt that democracy anyway?

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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by FpUser on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:18AM (#32790344)
So is lynching. Democracy means zilch when people do not have inalienable rights not to be fucked with and those rights are enforced.
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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by shlurpy on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:08AM (#32790776)
Such rights mean nothing when people lose their respect for them. Democracies work when a sufficiently vast majority of those within them belive that the systems are fundamentally good.

Lynching represent a public belief that whatever systems are in place are insufficient to bring justice. They happen regardless of what rights are declared in some legal text or whatever. The solution to building a better democracy always returns to building better, more trusted institutions, and building thr peoples trust that they are fair, and inalienable rights are just another such institution.

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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by FpUser on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:42AM (#32791625)
>"...and those rights are enforced"

You missed this part. When protection of one's rights is enforced it does not matter if particular group, even the majority looses a respect.

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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by trinsic2 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:23AM (#32791459)
What country did this happen?
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Re:On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence ... by lbeltrame on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:35PM (#32795442)
Italy, 2020 and 2021.
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