Opposition baffled yet undeterred!

The opposition is misrepresenting our position: we don't say that because neither dictatorship nor democracy cause development then the first shouldn't be persecuted. We say instead that they shouldn't be persecuted because they control better the variables that cause development, like health and education. The proposition never created a new category of a "democratic yet dictatorship government [sic] ". Rather, we clearly defined dictatorship from the beginning and we have stuck with that definition. The opposition ascribes us three sins: "We are appalled when the proposition tries to associate single party system with Dictatorship (sin no.1) then goes further as acknowledging economic success due to their form of government (sin no.2), even though the form of government applied an opposing economic policy that they never explained to us (hiding the truth - sin no.3)". Being truly pure of heart, we want to respond: regarding "Sin no.1" we clearly stated why one party systems are in fact a ruling clique with absolute power. No strangers to sinning, the opposition has conceded as dictatorship various one-party systems (North korea, Yugoslavia, Cuba) and a defacto one party system (Venezuela), but rejected countries that have it like China and Singapore, without really explaining the difference between both groups. On "sin no.2" they misrepresent our assertion. We propose that dictatorships can make unpopular and necessary decisions that democracies cannot, as explained in our Chile's Pinochet vs Venezuela's Carlos Andrés Pérez example. If we indeed sinned on "sin #3" we'll never know: it's not written clearly enough to answer. On this point: "A country's economic success can be accredited to their liberalization of the economy but definitely not because of their single party system" we say that when you have the total control of the country you can enact liberalization by decree, while in democracy there is usually opposition from interest groups. They claim we conceded dictatorships cannot can be defended yet we have defended dictatorships from all the spectrum, without any ideological or geographical bias. They claim that the example of Singapore is contradictory with our calling elections a luxury, because Singapore holds them. But there's is no contradiction between it being a luxury and Singapore wanting to spend on this luxury maybe to appease some critics. Which sometime dictatorships have to do. On the subject of our hijacking Singapore to the side of dictatorships we answer: 1. Elections are not the only condition for democracy as several of the countries that the opposition acknowledged as dictatorships have regular elections (Cuba, Venezuela and Zimbawe). On the subject of Libya we are perplexed by the opposition constant contradiction between the definition they insist is the one and the fact that their examples don't fall within it. Khadaffi in Libya tried to distribute oil revenues directly and the tribal liders didn't aprove. He didn't get his way. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/03/200933183343913989.html ]] Lastly, on "silencing the proposition", we propose to the opposition that debates aren't about silencing, but about rebuttal, proving, reasoning and evidence.