You can easily get the "Tyranny of the majority" under some democratic systems, particularly with direct voting on particular laws. You need a balance where you

You can easily get the "Tyranny of the majority" under some democratic systems, particularly with direct voting on particular laws. You need a balance where you have freedom for unpopular subgroups in the population but sufficient checks on these subgroups so that they don't get up to anything too wrong. Democracies, if they are too responsive to popular opinion, can be easily swayed by impulsive movements and the press. Democracy isn't a single idea, so the type of democracy affects the freedom in the land. Obviously any sort of power, democratic or not, is against "freedom" in the general sense. In reality, you need some sort of power structure, so the question is whether the democratic one is better than any other.