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IRA prisoners held by the British have famously used hunger striking, in part to allude to the famine--the most monumental historical example of British tyranny.
The specter raised by common-law judging, Scalia says, is not the unelected judge determined to impose the values of an elite few upon the masses, but that old Tocquevillian villain, the tyranny of the majority.
Analysts foresee two possible outcomes: brutal tyranny (the optimistic scenario) or bloody civil war.
Loved by millions, this hero gave his life trying to protect the ones he loved, after a lifetime devoted to fighting tyranny in all its guises.
“Tyranny is funny; not actual tyranny but the attempts of tyrants to cover up their tyrannousness.”