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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Pesmard Flurrmn)
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Subject: Re: Cause and effect? (Free speech --> Nazism?)
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 10:21:42 EST
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> Nazism came to power literally because good men & women DID NOT DO
> ENOUGH to oppose it, not because of freedom of speech. The current
> price of my freedom of speech is the ancient price: my constant readiness
> to oppose tyranny, even at the cost of my "life, fortune, or sacred honor."
> If people are not willing to do this, frankly, they deserve the hell on Earth
> they get.

I think that sums it up.  If people aren't willing to stand up for their
freedoms, then they're going to disappear.  If people are going to assume
things like "Hitler (or insert your favorite demagogue here) is an asshole,
no reasonable, thinking person would believe what he says", they should
realize that reasonableness, rationality, and intelligence are not criteria
for voting eligibility, and that non-reasonable, non-thinking people have
elected numerous empty demagogues that led them down fascistic paths.

I digress.
-- 
"So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither
"No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother
				Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr