[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <50203290$0$1443$c3e8da3$92d0a893 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:

> In a proper democracy, I do not understand why citizens should have the
> right to bear arms and essentially riot with machine guns against their
> own elected government.

   In a proper democracy, you don't have to forget how you got one.

   We've had the elected president not be the one who got the most
   popular votes 3 times.  The last time due to a miscount in the
   region controlled by the winner's brother, and via a decision made
   by his party's political appointees.

   We've had McCarthy and Nixon.

   Congress routinely passes, and presidents routinely sign, laws which
   are contrary to the Constitution.  Fortunately, in many cases the 
   courts catch them at it.

   We didn't get a democracy by asking the existing govnerment "pretty
   please".  A bit of scepticism is healthy.