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From: nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn)
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Subject: Rocking the boat
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 12:57:44 EST
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> 
> The world is quite a safe place for intelligent people, unless they
> talk too much.  When your "intelligent" observations disturb those in
> power, you're behaving foolishly.  During a time of unusually bad misrule
> in China, a famous sage (I have forgotten who) avoided notice by passing
> as an idiot.
> -- 
> Col. G. L. Sicherman

Strikes me that those in power are usually in great need of being
"disturbed".  Of course in the usual sort of government (Tyranny of one
sort or another) it may well indeed be foolish to make your dissent
publically known. In this situation the "continuation of dissent by
other means" may be more appropriate for those with the courage and
inclination to do so.

                -Steve "history is hell" Dunn