Our founding fathers, who specifically did NOT want this type of democracy for our country, shied away from Greece’s pattern which Aristotle was the first to describe as “mob rule.” They chose instead the “republic” as a form of government. When leaving the Constitutional Congress, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government we had, and he replied, “A republic, if we can keep it.”

Right now, we have a lot of work to do. What must be done to get back our Republic is to elect leaders who can make good decisions, to hire educated men to come up with a variety of good plans for various areas set aside for growth, and who have the guts to make a decision, as best they can, for the good of all of the people of the islands. This will mean that on occasion, they will have to stand up to a “mob” of people who got their small group together to protest and do the right thing in spite of the mob.