From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 01:29:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Governments and repression
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jamesd@netcom.com:
> Obviously most people do not call MIT a government.
>
> And if MIT built some prison cells under the Admin building and started
> locking people up in the dungeons for long periods, then people would
> call MIT a government.

Hezbollah, Hamas, the IRA, the Khmers Rouges lock people up. You may not
believe it but there are those who accept their 'rules' under the threat of
violence. I suppose 'most people' call _them_ governments?

I'm amazed at the way some of you keep screaming about the violence of 
governments. Maybe you need to experience some _real_ repression.

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