CDR: Re: Jim Bell arrested documents online

[David Honig]

At 09:58 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>
>Apparently because businesses do not use guns.
>
>They are missing the fact that majority of people never encounter/use
>guns in their life, and that the principal way of behavioural control
>is propaganda/ideology. Most of the people in the industrial world are
>directly and tightly controlled by corporations, not governments.
>

But the threat of coercion is not so abstract: you *do* see guns on the hip
of every cop or park ranger you run into.  And 'cop shows' detail the
paramilitary forces ready to knock down your doors.  I have yet to see
free-ranging IKEA police threatening the citizens or constitution recently.