Re: Lets give the police absolute power !

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From: Larry Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:14

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"mart" <mart@sgci.com> wrote in message
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> "You are free, as long as you don't"......form a trade union, go on strike
> or take other   labour actions. "

*****Trade unions have existed in many authoritarian systems.
Remember that Solidarity was basically what started the
destruction of the Soviet Union.


> "You are free, as long as you don't"..... organize any *real* political
> opposition, no matter how legitimate.
*******Protest is often tolerated.  Serious political opposition is
indeed not.



> "You are free, as long as you don't"....... advocate or promote democracy

*****
Well, that is true even in the USA.


> "You are free, as long as you don't" ......complain or protest human
rights
> abuses.

*****Op. Cit.

> "You are free as long as you don't".....do anything that might embarrass
the
> government, or point out that the "benevolent dictatorship" might not
always
> be benevovlent.

******Op.Cit.
> "You are free"?? Yeah, right.
> mart.

You are always free within the radius of your leash. Even in Amerika.

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