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jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) wrote:
>Oddly enough, what you said reminded me of the movie "The Killing Fields"
>Pol Pot gained control
>of Cambodia and was trying to remove all non-Cambodian influences.  This
>meant that all even partially educated people were killed and the children
>were given special authority "because they weren't polluted by past contacts
>with Western ideas; they were pure Cambodians." 

Indeed, it echoes one of Hilter's most chilling remarks to an opponent:

  "I don't need you, I have your children."

What has this got to do with NE.POLITICS? 

Consider the recent government financed TV commercials aimed at motivating children
to engage in a specific political action: petitioning for laws making
public smoking and cigarette machines illegal.

It is true that most of the commercials financed by the cigarette-tax-increase
are simply aimed at showing the ugly, dirty, and unhealthy nature of smoking.

But I'm sure everybody has seen those others that cross the line into
good, classic, government-financed political propaganda aimed at children.

Harmless propaganda except for the extent that a precedent has been set
that it is ok for the government of Massachusettes to be engaged in
this sort of activity.

-gjc