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To: breakem
"Even the most toptalitarian government will fall if enough people stand up. You cannot hold the Germand or Russians free of guilt or responsibility for what their governments did."

This places almost impossible demands on people. They must achieve unity, they must in large numbers be willing to place their own lives on the line to achieve what they can not expect to have more than near zero probability of success. If human nature were such as to make such mass uprisings more than the very remotest possibility, authoritarian governments (including our own) such as we know today could never have arisen in the first place.

80 posted on 11/03/2002 9:25:03 AM PST by Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
Errors in your response. The Nazi's came into power because people were hurting. A mass revolt would have stopped them, Look at the fall of communism tens of thousands in the street. If people are not responsible for their government, who is?

If the Cuban people and army got mad enough at Fidel he would fall.

109 posted on 11/03/2002 8:17:09 PM PST by breakem
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