RE: propoganda

["Jim Burnes" <jburnes@iss.net>]

mgraffam wrote:

>>On Wed, 5 May 1999, Anonymous wrote:

>>elided


>I have come to the point where I do not expect the U.S. government to do 
>one damn thing of its own accord to support liberty or justice. Every now
>and then the people catch a whiff of the stink coming from D.C. and 
>maybe we manage to do something about it. More often than not, we listen
>to the mind-numbing tube telling us to just cover our noses. 

I would agree.  They only give us liberty or justice if we enforce
the contract.

>Propaganda? You bet your ass it is. Democratic nations have killed more
>people with sweet words than most countries have with AK-47's.

Unfortunately you're dead (sorry) wrong there.

Unless you count post-nationalist China, Nazi-era Germany etc as
democratic countries the count is something like:

Nazi's (depending on who you believe):  6 million
Stalin and Company                   : 20 million
Mao and Friends                      : 65 million
Khmer Rouge                          :  1 million

                                       ----------
                                       92 million

And thats just the citizenry.

Democratic (whatever that means) nations have certainly killed their
share, but those are some pretty impressive figures.


>The only consolation prize that we get is that maybe Joe Soldier from
>Kansas won't fire on us. 

Don't count on it.  When Marines were quizzed about disarming local
civilians I believe somewhere around 20% said they would try.

jim