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To: Snowshoe who wrote (15520)	1/7/2002 2:50:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 281500

<It seems that once you let the genie of freedom out of the bottle, you can't put it back in...> Maybe. Sort of like getting a herd of cats back in a bottle. Threatening to shoot people gets them lined up though. I've seen film of prisoners of war and Jews and all sorts and threats of violence seems to get people in rows. A few need to be shot, but that makes it convincing to the rest. It doesn't win their hearts, minds and obedient creativity, but it can force compliance on most. Which is of course why conscription, Mao, Stalin and other authoritarian wacko stuff never achieves much. Sure, you get a lot of saluting, but that doesn't invent the theory of relativity. Mqurice

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