"Absolute Power' is an aberration - say like Hitler . Saddam Hussein . They are politicians 'gone mad' and the citizenery of the regieme who have successively let go their half-share of power would have become zombies. But still there would be resistence from some folks and the regiem will be overthrown. The process is a tragic waste. So - It depends on the citizenery to 'safeguard' their share of political power - by way a keeping together as citizens and not lose power through the placation of their individual or temporary association-perks.

A Fool for a King - and Misery to the People ! This is for sure. So - the wiser need to supersede them- Not shun them !!

Yes anything of government's 'free' proclamation has new fetters implied in small print.!

A needful reminder to us - the oppressed citizenery of the Democratic-Dictators of the Day !

I totally endorse both the views.

Given the fact that the modernday Democratic States are themselves run by Public Money... There cant be any 'charity' by the government towards its people either as a duty or any privilege !! It is a positive insult to the Citizens !!!

Very True !

Honesty pays in mental and physical strength..... Woe to those who prefer to be paid in cash !!!!

'Straight from the horses mouth'.... Frederick Baily the escaped slave has known the 'tyrant's source of power best'.

The problem lies in the fact that - in this 21st century - I find that 'thinking' that as a claim and act has come to include 'wishful thinking'... and it is a cruel joke on anyone who quotes or tries to act on them - on the implicit belief that the person has 'logically thought of it' !!

The quite common incidence of 'wishful thinking' is about the worst deception of all !!!!

The Police should be 'in charge' of only 'material thefts'..and traffic violations and should have the authority to 'cognize' any other political or social affence and hand the suspects over to a more judicious/juridical authority. If this is clearly stated - then the sp termed dubious or nebulous 'surveillence' can be done away with.

Yes- a very useful pointer this is - Going ahead with lying - though not very far with one lie - many know . But one need to know the less obvious 'disadvantaging' that lies bring in. It is that a liar cannot go back on the lies- neither for any effective repentence nor for any rightful enjoyment of his/her past privileges. ! Lost they would be for ever !!.

Yes = and that for the reasons that the truth to be spoken out may sound incredidible or it may refer itself to others around or the speaker adversely .

A 'Republic' means a State with duly Decentralized Political Power Functioning... and Most of the Monarchies of the past were quite so qualitatively....

If the term 'right' is to mean an 'empowerment to act' .. then it is 'legal' But then the term also means a 'natural law' I suppose.. There again it is both ethical and legal. Right at once means 'good power ' doesnt it ?

The term and terms of 'security' necessarily do have a factor of 'binding'... and as such is antithetical to 'freedom'.... Freedom speaks of a state wherein the individual human is 'in the world but not all of the world'....

Most often a long-drawn 'silence' is mistaken for peace. And any wager - a warning or a war felt inevitable at that point of time is commonly upined as an unnecessarily burden... It is not sufficiently appreciated as a 'damage arresting duty'. As during Iraq war.. if only the mideast was politically honest enough to join hands with the US the burden would have been much less on Bush - both morally and financially - I suppose.

yes It is very true.

The reverse is also true of Science .. as from a wholesale trifle conjectures one gets solid facts - as well.

Given the fact or the logic of 'Least Government is the Best Government'... the citizen should be able to readily 'protect himself without necessarily having to wait for any government agency.- particularly as of now when all Nations without exception have got into a rather 'blurred view' as regards the bonafides and malafides of human fundamental rights - thanks to the Isms of sorts ... like communism - naxalism - feminism or secularism which have all discounted the human count of an assured living sans any 'sanctioned' injury or insult - that by way of political, religious or 'cultural' presumptions or assumptions.

Yes Whenever I get a remark that I am 'intelligent' there I hear an undertone of that being meant as for some 'cleverness-manipulative' !! And my immediate reaction has always been ' Whya cant' they term it as 'goodness' plain ??

Just a bit 'beyond the point'.. I would like to cite Alexander the Great's exasperation at finding that the India that he thought he had 'conquered' did/nt 'seem' to have lost on anything.. bullion notwithstanding !! So then - 'sovereignity' of the individuals / the nation matters most - I suppose.

It is better for the Nations to ensure for themselves a well disciplined and sensitive and above all an Impartial Police Force - with well equipped trigger and trnsport rather than go 'empowering the individual citizens' - whom no Nation can control.

Excessive 'good' towards the 'bad' makes the latter err to his/her doom... as excessive 'bad' towards the 'good' will make the victim stronger... 'Storm roots in the Oak more'...