Replying to a message of Gene McAloon to Adam Flinton:

 GM> From: Gene McAloon 

 GM> On Mon, 19 May 2003 17:48:32 +0100, Adam Flinton
 GM>  wrote:

 >> Oh really? So where do the powers of the US legislature spring from?
 >> The head of Zeus?

 GM> From the people of course. 

3/4 of whom don't bother to vote.

 GM> What do you think the US is, some sort of
 GM> nutty parliamentary system in which the legislature must force the
 GM> monarch to grant it powers?

An authoritarian regime, rapidly morphing into a dictatorship.  With the
uninformed consent of a large group of sheeple kept terrified with
carefully timed and worded (and bogus) 'terrorist threat alerts.'

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