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Christopher Blackwell
But that was voilent
Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:46pm
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OldCm

governments are well designed to deal with violence as that justifies their use of violence. Another fact is the internet for organizing demonstrations and getting the word out. You can see why governments want to control it. It is dangerous to all governments. Anything that helps communications and is not controlled by government is dangerous to government.

Do you remember the old way of copying papers, you typed it on on a black copy, put them on an inked roller and then printed out these smeared looking copies. I can't think of what it is called. Anyway in the Soviet Union those were strictly government controlled and to use one inappropriately could get you shot. Never the less a lot of forbidden books got published that way and smeared copies made it to the black market.



Imagine how dangerous the first printing presses were when they made it cheaper to cop things then the old monk copying it by hand. It started the split in Christianity when Bibles began to be printed and people other than priests could interpret it for themselves.

The Internet could prove just as dangerous to any kind of government as it makes secrecy that much more difficult and no government can survive if it can't keep much of what it is doing secret.

  • What will be the new rendition destination — xx, Fri Feb 11 2:42pm
    ...now that the peole of Egypt have spoken? http://news.sky.com/skynews/
    • I've heard — Robert , Sat Feb 12 11:09am
      Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, and Barbara Streisand are recommending Club Med!
    • That was my post — cc, Fri Feb 11 8:04pm
      The x is next to the c on the keyboard.
    • Careful — greenman, Fri Feb 11 5:21pm
      ...they might want to give Suleiman a job at Gitmo...
    • Now wll the military give government back? — Christopher Blackwell, Fri Feb 11 5:17pm
      xx, So far good. But now that the military controls the government will they give it back? Still a lot of ways for this to fall apart, but I am impressed that the violence has not been far worse that ... more
      • Probably not. — OldCM, Sat Feb 12 6:36am
        "I wonder if we could pull off something similar? Our history would indicate that we could not. Think Civil War. :|
      • Well, there were arrests, torture, deaths — cc, Fri Feb 11 8:07pm
        ...and extensive property damage. Doesn't sound all that peaceful to me.
        • That was the government response — Christopher Blackwell, Sun Feb 13 3:54pm
          CC, The media will always focus on property damage. We see that during demostratios here, even if most of the people are not violent and dmage nothing, the media will focus on any violence that they... more
      • Hard to say.... — Sprout, Fri Feb 11 5:58pm
        I would say that the US's influence on the Egyptian military would tend to have their military culture expecting to be subordinate to civilian leadership. Which would bode well for the military... more
      • Grin; do you have plans! — Zeus, Fri Feb 11 5:28pm
        I bet that many will follow you if you did. Funny that you and your walker upfront. :o)) But I don't know if you will survive such action? Zeus
    • Georgia or one of the other ex-USSR nations. — Zeus, Fri Feb 11 5:02pm
      The USA lost again another ME stooge. Israel will now rue the day that they kept pushing the Palestinian. They had the chance of peace with them under Yitzhak Rabin but they chose to assassinate him... more
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