o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o John & All --
In the matter of citizens and constables, I'd already suggested somewhere or other that a better lesson of English history might come not so much from Bobbie Peel in the 19th century than from the upheavals of the 17th century, where they went from an Absolute Monarch (at least in his own mind) to a Headless Leviathan to a Lord Protector that was more a tyrant than they started with. Sic semper? So let's watch out for that ... Jon Awbrey PS. You forgot Le Ms. FIELDS, JOHN wrote: > > I know some have posted here about the authoritarian use of Caesar and Czar. > When I read "citizen," it reminded me of the French Revolution; all people > were > required by law to refer to each other as citizen instead of Mr. or Mrs. The > only > reason that I mention this is because of the possible connotation: the > Revolution > devolved into anarchy. Could/would users of the Citizendium make a > connection and > see it as an overthrow of Wikipedia that will eventually lead to anarchy? > Just the > thought that went through my head reading the last few posts ... > > John o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ citizendium development forums: http://smf.citizendium.org http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wikinfo: http://wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
