"I will now give the definition of the United States government for democracy, until it was changed back in the early thirties. The official definition was, and I quote the US Army Manual, 1928, quote, "Democracy: The worst form of government possible. Always leading to autocracy, tyranny, and slavery." In fact the Greeks had a name for the leader of a democracy. The name of a leader of a democracy, the proper name, is a tyrant. They first observed democracy in a place called Tyre. And they looked and saw the guy looked just like L.B.J. and they said, "He's a tyrant!" Tyranny is a synonym for democracy. The word has [the] exact same meaning. Democracy is the lynch mob in operation. Democracy says, "Whatever the majority wants it can have, ... whether it be moral or immoral. All you have to do is get the majority to support it and it's ok. Anything's ok if the majority supports you. If the majority wants to kill, killing's fine. If the majority wants to steal, stealing's fine. After all, the majority should rule!" Rule who? Oh, rule the minority. Obviously. Somebody's got to be ruled!" -- Dr. Stuart Crane
The above is a quote from Dr. Stuart Crane, an economist. This excerpt is a transcript of a small portion of his lecture, "Proofs of a Conspiracy", given in Southern California 1969. In researching this quote from the US Army Manual, 1928, I stumbled across Liberty Tree's web site and this thread of comments. I figured some of the readers may appreciate Dr. Crane's perspective. I am still searching for his source for his quote of the US Army Manual 1928. I presume it exists, and is accurate, since he was rather thorough in his fact gathering in many other instances from his several lectures.