From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:17:06 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: You know it's getting late when...
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jim bell wrote:
> 
> Ostensibly, one of the reasons for having a free and fair political system 
> is so people will not be inclined to throw bombs and plot violent 
> revolution.  Grandly ignoring this, that reporter seems to take the 
> diametrically opposite tack:  A totalitarian government can best avoid 
> bombings and violence.
> 

Actually the graph goes like this: 

^ Non-State Terrorism
|
|            ..-..
|          /~     \
|       .-~        \
|..---/~            ~-.
+------------------------------------------------> Level of Totalitarianism

^ State Terrorism
|
|          -------------------------------------
|       .-~
|    .-~
| .-~
|/
+------------------------------------------------> Level of Totalitarianism

	- Igor.