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From: | Pierce T . Wetter III |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US |
Date: | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:29:57 -0700 |
On Jul 24, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Samium Gromoff wrote:
Pierce wrote:It would also worry me if we started training our army to be able to peacefully subjugate thepopulation. (Consistency is boring...)Its probability worries you rightfully, but for a fundamentally wrong reason. If a state has to train too much policemen then this means that something is _really_ _really_ _wrong_ with the government of that state.
Not if they were used for disaster relief etc. Though that's what the national guard is for, but they don't have the army corp of engineers. What would worry me is that then it might make them too easy to use for some sort of "internal problem". Pierce
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