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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Laws Nobody Obeys ARE NEEDED
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Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 14:48:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 18 14:48:31 1984
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at home, for obvious reasons.  Not only do we have no moral
obligation to obey such tyranny, but in many cases, such as
Nazi Germany (don't forget, the majority of the society WANTED
Hitler, and approved of his policies), we have the moral obligation
to break the laws.  So, I would advocate, don't always equate
the bozos in the legislature with right, they may have the might,
but not always the right.
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The Nazi party never won a majority of the votes in Germany.  They may
have taken the most seats in the Reichstag, but they lost seats in the
election before Hitler was asked to become Chancellor.  Hitler was
asked because the Right-wing business party thought they could control
him, and the alternatives from their general ideological stream had
no real backing.  If they had not taken Hitler, the next election might
well have resulted in a Socialist Chancellor, and they didn't want that.
Only after Hitler was Chancellor did they find that he was neither
controllable nor on their side.  After it became suicidally dangerous
to criticize Hitler and the Nazis, who knows how the mass of people
really felt?

What happened with Hitler could happen in almost any country.  "The price
of liberty is eternal vigilance."
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Martin Taylor
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