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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
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Subject: Re: Communications Decency Act may corrupt protocols
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Date: 2 May 1996 22:51:01 GMT
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Darryl Watson (dwatson@abwam.com) wrote:
: I find it heavily ironic that the US is trying to place essentially the
: same type of information control that China is - by trying to run the
: traffic through a centrally-controlled agency (in the case of China,
: through their 'news' service, in the case of the US, through the FBI/
: Secret Police/Big Brother/Goon Squad/Other Derogatory Adjectives).
: "Freedom of Speech".  HAH.  I am embarrassed to be an American.  I
: apologize, to the rest of the World for the Buttheads that exist here.
: It is probably time to take this topic to another newsgroup...
Following has some relation to FreeBSD, as it fell out of FreeBSD's
fortune cookie database: ;)

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Democracy, n.:
A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
                -- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
                   since withdrawn.
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I suppose, the spirit is still here...somewhere :)

Marat