Sorry, I guess I read too much into your comment. Democracy, equality before the law and freedom of speech need each other to work. To me it seems self evident

Sorry, I guess I read too much into your comment. Democracy, equality before the law and freedom of speech need each other to work. To me it seems self evident and I assumed it to be no-brainer to large majority of HN. I thought that we we're discussing here a situation where freedom and democracy might be conflicted. If they cannot be conflicted, then we have to assume that people of democratic nation are unable to ever vote for ethnic surveillance. Which seems unrealistic assumption.