From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@rpcp.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:28:14 -0800 (PST)
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Subject: How many people killed by there own governments (Was: Re: a retort + a comment + a question = [RANT])
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>With regard to b), governments--primarily through the use of 
>their militaries--have killed, by some counts 170,000,000, men,
>women and children in this century alone.  Hardly the guardians
>of freedom, in my opinion.

	Do you have a breakdown of that number? I'm working on one of my thought
experiments and am looking for the appropriate stats:


o THUGS V. GOVS 
  (during times of "modern" govts. 1800+)

Deaths by Govts. on "own people"

  US Civil War     x M
  US Native Americans
  Hitler: Jews     6 M
  Hitler: Others   6 M
  Stalin:         30 M
  China: Cult Rev  x M
  France: Rev      x M


  Deaths by Thugs

  Murders in whole world

	^^^ See to be valid, I think I'd have to including thugs all over the
world (since I use genocides all over the world) but if I had the
death/person US figure, I could multiply that by the whole world and have a
upper bound (conservative) since US has a partcularly large amount of murderes.
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