Re: CONTROL FREAKS

To try to cool the flames a bit... In article <Pine.3.87.9409091434.A20129-0100000@crl2.crl.com>, Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com> wrote:

Come on, Jim, you've been arguing that totalitarians can ignore economics. Answer my questions. How long did the "Thousand Year Reich" last? What totalitarian states can you name that have had any legs at all? There are none.

I think the point isn't that totalitarian states won't last: we know that. The point is that those trying to establish a totalitarian state can do a hell of a lot of damage to the rest of us before they fail. -- L. Todd Masco | "Hide, witch, hide! The good folk come to burn thee, their cactus@bb.com | keen enjoyment hid behind a gothic mask of duty." -JS/BATE