Are dissidents a threat to a Totalitarian State ? . .

[Steve Hayes]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:00:20 -0400, gryb wrote:

>Are dissidents a threat to a Totalitarian State ?

Totalitarian states think so.

People who don't live in totalitarian states find it hard to understand.

In England I once wore a badge that said "I am an enemy of the state".

An upper-crust Tory type with a plummy accent said "Why?"
And I replied "I don't know".

He said "Well, I suppose that's what one can expect these days."

But in South Africa back then, the Minister of Justice could ban people, and
his police could detain them without trial, and he was under no legal
obligation to give reasons for his action. He was legally empowered to "deem"
anyone a comunist, a terrorist or an enemy of the state with no obligation to
say why he had done so.

Are dissidents a threat to totalitarian states?

The state authorities think so, and since the essence of totalitarianism is
power without responsibility, why should they say why?

Steve Hayes
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm

[Noname]

Ask Castro, he seems to think so,just incarcerated 75 dissidents to 20 ,30
and life for speaking their minds,that`s your communist system in action/

<gryb> wrote in message news:tsdq9vsc9taad1c38...@4ax.com...

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