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To: Ilaine who wrote (77551)	8/10/2011 10:50:49 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	2 Recommendations Respond to of 218000

re: a world without rabble: Before the French Revolution, the peasantry owned nothing, and had no control over the government that taxed them. After, the peasants owned the land they worked, and voted for those who taxed them. So, they were a chronically revolutionary, violent force in France, before the Revolution. And, since then, a chronically conservative LawAndOrder force. If you want a world without rioting rabble, everyone has to have a stake in the status quo. Sending in the army to machine-gun the rioters, or the police to enforce evictions, never works for long. Unfortunately, that's the first solution all the Haves think of, to deal with the HaveNots.