Friday, November 17, 2006

The sort of thing that gives democracy a bad name

"Australia and New Zealand agreed Friday to send troops to Tonga, where mobs demanding democratic reforms destroyed much of the capital in unprecedented rioting that left at least eight people dead." (Cite.)

Should this make me laugh as much as it does?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Probably. Look at the French Revolution; as Jack McShane told us, tyranny is tyranny, whether by one person or a mob.