Due Mr. Shapiro's op piece today, the Rail commission demonstrates the classic alternative to "mob rule."  Rail's embedded inviolate idiocy, either via corruption or incompetence, TRACKS us toward financial ruin.  A representative democracy (republic) leaving too many constituents RAILROADED, gives rise to 19th century "mob rule" and "Wild West justice."   Ms Cataluna's piece today instructs what happens when we are not ready for a Republic founded upon self-control and individual accountability.  A failed Republic reverts to the "Law of Moses" codifying every individual's action -- squeezing every breath of freedom from us that the "Coming of Jesus" meant to liberate to us in the Median of Time.  Price for liberty?  Individual accountability, or a Republic fails.  Today, politicians curse us with "bygones be bygones" and "water under the bridge" that leads to masking over transparency to avoid accountability.  Mobs will rule when the emperor has no clothes.