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To: Ilaine who wrote (38636)	8/19/2002 11:45:50 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There is a certain nauseating sameness to repressive regimes worldwide. Critics of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never seen again. Intellectuals tortured, imprisoned, executed. Those on top monopolize the economy and hand out monopolies to their buddies. Contributions from outside wind up in Swiss bank accounts. As Orwell said, the future is a boot smashing a face forever. I call it thugocracy. That sounds astonishingly like our "friends" in Central America in the '80s. They were "authoritarians" though, as I recall, and therefore a cut above. Or something, as far as propaganda requirement of the time went, anyway. A random article: Dirty Hands The success of U.S. policy in El Salvador -- preventing a guerrilla victory -- was based on 40,000 political murders theatlantic.com Advocates of "moral clarity" might contemplate that number, out of a much smaller population, when they go off on their fatuous self righteous screeds. I'm not holding my breath, though.

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