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James Madison, arguing in favor of the Constitution, said "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Well, that is robust rhetoric, but it is not quite true. It so happens that every tyrant has possessed those three powers and that every person who has possessed them has ruled as a tyrant. That, however, is mere coincidence...
...obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical." Americans who are squeamish about political assassinations may be surprised to learn that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this is not a job for Americans to undertake, but we should...
...jihad that will topple the "Great Satan" (the U.S.). In order to be successful, we must obtain open support from the Arab countries in the region before taking any action. We cannot allow Iraq's leader to be viewed as an Islamic martyr; he must be seen for the tyrant he is. Any assassination attempt on his life by the West would be counterproductive. MARK W. MCLAUGHLIN Walpole, Maine...
...power behind dissidents who had risked their jobs, and their lives, to fight mob control of their locals. But even before a federal overseer barred him from running again--the court had already nullified his re-election in August--Carey the reformer had become Carey the co-opted tyrant. Disaffected Teamsters dissidents have told TIME that Carey not only spurned his allies but also surrounded himself with a cadre of 1960s-era campus radicals with little taste for democracy...
Will the daring insurgents storm the castle and free the people from the tyrant's cloying clutches? Or will they discover that, gee, the people really like Di Sney's style and don't care to be rescued...