"Pothole theory of democracy"

Submitted by J. Keen Holland (United States), Jan 26, 2006 at 02:36

Your comments about politicians who made the trains run on time, built modern highways, etc. reminded me of an item in Liberty magazine during the Depression that quoted Chicago gangster (and political fixer) Al Capone on the importance he placed on distributing food in poor neighborhoods. Thank you for pointing out that one good deed doesn't unmake a criminal. And in the case of Hamas, where is even the one good deed?

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