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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Singing slogans in school
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Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 23:50:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 23:50:14 1985
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>I cannot speak for Ari Gross, BUT if you ever see a country where
>pre-schoolers are militarized and singing slogans in sweet unison,
>you can bet your subscription to Pravda :-) that confronting you
>is yet another implementation of a familiar model of government.
>(There are other tell-tale signs, too...).  The country can be
>called the USSR, nazi Germany, or Cuba, or Nicaragua, and the
>slogans may differ, but the political structure , the "technology
>of power"  varies remarkably little.

I don't know about you, but when I was little, we had to wear uniforms,
and sing slogans such as "Onward Christian Soldiers" in school.  I've
seen TV of US schools showing kids with hands across their hearts saying
in unison "I pledge allegiance to the Flag ..."

What political structure, what "technology of power" did you have in mind
that the US and UK share with USSR, Nazi Germany, Cuba and Nicaragua?
-- 

Martin Taylor
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