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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Criticism of America :re to critics
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 13:38:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 13:38:00 1986
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>/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) / 11:28 am  Mar  7, 1986 */

>What I *AM* concerned about is concentrations
>of power which threaten such freedoms and human rights and threaten
>to make our country more and more like the Soviet Union.

A critical distinction, which you failed to mention, is that we are talking
about two different types of power, economic and political.  Economic power
is maintained in a free society by continuously pleasing consumers, while
political power is maintained in a non-free society by frightening the populace
into submission through violence and the threat thereof.  It is thus difficult
to imagine that our economic freedoms could lead to abuse of human rights,
while it seems that the abuse of human rights is necessary for the
maintenance of power by the communist party in the Soviet Union, at least
in the long term.
 
>     tim sevener  whuxn!orb

Mike Sykora