On second thought, LH, given that you are currently enjoy civil liberty, and do not run the risk of having your balls fried by raw electrical wires, being suspended from a pole, or fed into a shredder feet first for speaking about your disagreements with M. Chretien -- why don't you try coming up with a definition? Your eloquence is surely up to the task, I am confident.

Oh, and don't forget the pleasures of a rule of law, and a government which to some degree honors its origins are with the citizens, and relies on their goodwill rather than their fear for its continuation. Oh, and a judicial branch serving to balance the executive, and constraints on the police in their actions against individuals, and whatever else your government acknowledges as its legal boundaries.

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