//Gosh, I wonder if your model has ever been tried, and how it worked out.//

As I recall from the documentary about medieval English life I watched, yes it has been tried. And it worked out in the peasants being repressed. But hey, don't they all?

You know what, Toni? All those Vietnam Vets came back to Australia in the knowledge that they had put their lives on the line and lost their mates so that the rabble greeting them with taunts of "murderer" and "baby killer" could do so without fear of reprisal or persecution. Perhaps you could share a working example of your great system that has not degenerated into a murderous totalitarian regime? I am a big supporter of the current system because I have seen what the alternatives deliver. Venezuela was the socialist nirvana a few years ago. Today it is a totalitarian nightmare, free of food, medicine and toilet paper. The only reason it continues on its murderous path is because of support from Russia and China, those wonderful libertarian nations!

Fester,
I wonder who feeds Toni Lavis ?

//Perhaps you could share a working example of your great system that has not degenerated into a murderous totalitarian regime?//

Sure, here's the relevant scene from that doco about Medieval England I watched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng

//I wonder who feeds Toni Lavis ?//

I wonder who wipes the drool of indy's chin.

Sadly Toni, all those high ideals of socialism have created enslavement by corrupt and incompetent totalitarian bureaucracies, happy to leave their neglected subjects in poverty, and all too ready to torture and murder those who would challenge their undemocratic authority. No welfare or healthcare in socialist nirvanas, Toni.