Comments on: UPDATED: An Egyptian Revolutionary Tribunal? https://barelyablog.com/an-egyptian-revolutionary-assembly/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael Marks https://barelyablog.com/an-egyptian-revolutionary-assembly/comment-page-1/#comment-18487 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:11:54 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=36801#comment-18487 What is truly remarkable about the American founders is that they understood human nature. They knew that majority rule in its basest form was mob rule. I’ve heard it said that pure democracy is much like two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for supper. Of course the wolves want lamb!

Socialist claim to understand the condition of man, but seem to have no understanding of his true nature.

Maybe it is because I grew up during the cold war era when many Revolutionary Tribunals were communist but, the words Revolutionary Tribunal almost always have an ominus sound to me. The reference to Kangaroo Courts seems entirely appropriate.

]]> By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/an-egyptian-revolutionary-assembly/comment-page-1/#comment-18482 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:31:06 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=36801#comment-18482 Those who used to suck up to the lion can’t wait to kick him in the groin now that he is defanged. (Credit Mencken making this very observation about Porfirio Diaz 1910 – now Mubarak 100 years later)

Here is what the French did (great old movie with a dynamite Madame Defarge):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wn1EfrbqCs&feature=related

Meanwhile, our own bloated multi-trillion dollar Washington Leviathan may be a bit like 1780’s France before people find that their savings and “Social Security” were blown away on ethanol subsidies and bombs for Pushtuns.

Here is la Revolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln58d-K17XY&playnext=1&list=PLA50118381FBE96A1

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/an-egyptian-revolutionary-assembly/comment-page-1/#comment-18478 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:19:49 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=36801#comment-18478 Egypt, Syria, Libya, etc,etc, ad nauseum. Who knows what is going to happen? If we think the Middle East has been hard to deal with in past years just think what it’s going to be like now. An aroused Muslim world linked with unsettled, possibly revolutionary governments, weak Europe and stupid America portends nothing but confusion. Boy, am I glad we have our foreign policy being implemented by those two cagey veterans Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Where are Abbott and Costello when we need them?

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