I'll take my chances with people who have had the taste of freedom, believing that they are less likely to become totalitarian and they will rise up once those freedoms are threatened. This is what in happening in former soviet block countries and obviously there are people in Iran who remember what freedom, albeit not perfect, was like years ago and they're restless again for it. Wipe the froth from your lips and try to reply to the point of my post, which was:
Todays "free country" can be tomorrow's totalitarian country.