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To: Disestablishmentarian
The most excellent Heinlein quote fleshed out.

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.

Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Robert A Heinlein


51 posted on 11/23/2019 10:45:29 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

FIRST THREAD SLIDE:

this is the one book that got me to start reading science fiction a long time ago:

The Door Into Summer – Robert Heinlein
and it’s on audio!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKv6OtLOXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qkPXw3q31g

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MOAR!!!!

This youtube site has lots of sci-fi on audio!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoTikOC9V9LVrzLP-puFz_w


64 posted on 11/23/2019 10:57:52 AM PST by bitt (I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch.)
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To: bagster

In before a hunnit.


75 posted on 11/23/2019 11:17:09 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: bagster

That is one hell of a quote.

Leading me down some wandering paths.

Thanks Bags.


126 posted on 11/23/2019 12:40:18 PM PST by Cats Pajamas (I love all of President Trump's tweets & Epstein didn't kill himself!)
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To: bagster
The most excellent Heinlein quote fleshed out.

That is a good qoute, but Heinlein was a perv. Read the cat who walked through walls. Dude is having sex with his own daughter.

#Yuck!

293 posted on 11/23/2019 5:47:44 PM PST by The Toddler (There could be five or six ninjas in this room right now.)
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