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	<title>The Redemption of Todd M. Fay &#187; USA</title>
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		<title>From Bondage to Bondage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Originally published on my Myspace.com blog on November 16, 2007.
Quoting Alexander Tyler (an 18th Century Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) reflecting on the demise of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier:
&#8220;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of the People. Fear of the People.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance from my political life recently quoted the following:
“Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt: Those without power cannot defend freedom.”
My sentiment is this:
A lack of power is not what afflicts us. We have the power; always have. What we have is a surplus of ignorance. We ignore the fact that each of us, some day, [...]]]></description>
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