Freedom is not based on the ballot box. Democracy it not an end in itself. Rights are! The question is, what are rights?
William R. Thomas explains the nature of rights.
Thursday July 4 we ran a commentary entitled Why Democracy and Equality Are Evil. Well, they aren't evil per se; but these concepts are being used in an inappropriate way. The piece explained why the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following the Arab Spring was not an outburst of democratic freedom as the Western media and the bien-pensant elites made it out to be.