[ClearCase_guy]

The Mob?
The government?

A distinction without a difference

[Kaslin]

indeed

[silverleaf]

the mob has a code of conduct and people who can keep secrets, and even nepotism has to show competence to be promoted

[SMARTY]

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, NOT ALWAYS THE MAJORITY, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” Lord Acton