Regimes can stay in power in an age of mass media only if they have enough murderers willing to gun down people in the street. Snipers were willing to kill their fellow countrymen in the streets...
I kept going "oh, wait!"
Regimes can stay in power in an age of mass media only if they have enough murderers willing to gun down people in the street. Snipers were willing to kill their fellow countrymen in the streets...
I kept going “oh, wait!”
For some “silly’ reason that phrase we’ve been seeing lately: “At least the police officer got to go home safe and sound to his family”, popped into my head.
Perhaps all it takes in a ‘regime change’ situation like in the Ukraine is that the realization that that going home ‘thing’ might not be occurring tonight. That in turn makes the ‘security agent’ think about what they are doing instead of just blindly following orders.