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To: LindyBill who wrote (1514)	10/31/2002 1:48:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (6) of 6901

< He said the audience was astounded by how rich the Joads were. They owned a TRUCK! That was unbelievable wealth in Russia at the time. > Not only that, but they were free to simply move! Belgium in the 1980s [and perhaps still now] required government approval to move. It was a process of going to the police, then to the city bureaucrats to get approval to move. I had a run-in with the city bossy britches one day. She got irate over something [probably a lack of fawning adulation of the government power and a comment to the effect that it was a load of nonsense]. Made our family wait for hours. When I said, "Well, it's your game". She leaned forwards intently, with malevolence in her heart and government power in her grip and said between clenched teeth, "It is not a game". In English [which was kind of her to as it was her country and she could have required a translator to help me out, but I think she wanted to communicate with me directly]. Our children did pictures and gave them to her. It was all very civil but the use of power amused me. I think the nice children got to them after a while and they must have started to become aware that it was they who were the barbarians. They ended up quite friendly. All good fun! Such societies have trouble understanding freedom. They see the mayhem that all too often comes with it and they are right. It was very pleasant living in Belgium. Don't put a foot wrong and life goes along really nicely. Same in Saudi Arabia. My brother used to go there and said the shopkeepers just left their tills for prayers. Nobody steals! They know the consequences. I quite like that. There's something to be said for the Taleban and Islam and modesty and so on. The west could learn from them. Mqurice

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