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From: louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
Message-ID: <1991Apr08.204608.21027@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Apr 91 20:46:08 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.201230.5970@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>
>The seductive order in which large institutions know everything about a
>person, for the person's own good, of course, is known as totalitarianism.
>Less politely, it's named fascism, for the strength that comes from every
>person/reed being bound into a unified worldview/fasces.
>
>Bob Jacobson
>-- 

No, fascism get its name from the fasces, rods bound together.  The fasces were
handed to the Roman Emperor as a symbol of his power and right to inflict
corporal punishment on the subjects of the Empire.  SO fascism is an ideology
that centers around forcing people by threat of punishment to live by the
government's rules.

You say, then, what is the difference between that and th good ol' U.S.ofA.??

Well, you aren't guaranteed *any* rights (in ancient Rome you were, it wasn't
a fascist government) and most every aspect of your life including
thought, speech, etc. is limited by gov't policy.  Punishment is always
physical rather than incarceration.

In other words, totalitarianism -- conservative style.

Hmmm.  I knew taking 4 years of Latin would come in handy some day!!

Louis
louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us

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