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     I see by my preponderance of MAIL that you all enjoyed my little item 
on censorship.  There's plenty more where that came from.  

     Now on to today's words of wisdom.

     Let's suppose for a minute that we were to be enslaved by an outside/in-
side force.  How would we know when the moment of enslavement actually came?
In theory, we could study previous enslavements to find the series of events 
that led up to it.  Perhaps we should ask an historian, and maybe a former 
resident of the nation, what happened just prior to the enslavement.

     Here's a list of events compiled by Dr. Warren Carroll, an historian, and 
Mike Djordjevich, a Yugoslav refugee.  These are generally considered to be the
fourteen Signposts to Slavery.

     1.  Restrictions on taking money out of the country, and on the establish-
ment or retention of a foreign bank account by an American citizen.

     2.  Abolition of private ownership of handguns.

     3.  Detention of individuals without judicial process.

     4.  Requirement that private financial transactions be keyed to social 
security numbers or other government identification so that government records
of these transactions can be kept and fed into a computer.

     5.  Use of compulsary education laws to forbid attendance at presently 
existing private schools.

     6.  Compulsory non-military service.

     7.  Compulsory psychological treatment for non-governmental workers or 
public school children.

     8.  An official declaration that anti-Communist organizations are
subversive, and subsequent legal action taken to suppress them.

     9.  Laws limiting the number of people allowed to meet in a private home.

     10. Any significant change in passport regulations to make passports more
difficult to obtain or use.

     11. Wage and price controls, especially in a non-wartime situation.

     12. Any kind of compulsory registration with the government of where
individuals work.

     13. Any attempt to restrict freedom of movement within the United States.

     14. Any attempt to make a new major law by executive decree (that is, 
actually put one into effect, not merely authorized as by existing executive
orders).

     Establishment of any five of the above should indicate that the remainder
are not far behind.  And, by the way, it is not difficult to implement any of
them in such a manner that the American public does not know they are being
implemented.  (Example:  #4 and #12 are imbedded in IRS "regulations.")

     So sleep well tonight.  Your friendly Insiders will.

     --Don Black

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