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To: Ilaine who wrote (18809)	2/14/2002 12:39:50 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

CB: Yes, All part of the package.

To: Ilaine who wrote (18809)	2/14/2002 2:10:16 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 281500

CB - >>There is great similarity between that and islamism - they're both totalitarian.<< Easier than that. They both: 1) are anti-democracy; 2) are anti-capitalist; 3) are anti-petit bourgeois/middle class; 4) are opposed to the freedom of the press, religion, and association; 5) believe that life is a zero sum game (if you win then I lose); 6) are opposed to the free transmission of ideas, the free passage of persons; free trade; 7) extraordinarily punitive of those who don't agree with them 8) deny the worth of the individual outside the ideology. Maybe all of the above are what you mean by "totalitarian" but I thought I'd be more specific. I'd expect the judges to give John Ashcroft at least a 5.5 on that list. Regards, Don