On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Alberto Monteiro wrote:

> Controlling _6 million spies_?
>
> <sarcasm>
> You must trust in the g*vernment habilities to control such an
> enormous number of people - hence, you are a communist!!!!!!!!!!
> </sarcasm>

Properly organized the "spies" (or informers, perhaps not technically
spies) will mostly control each other.  Anyway, the exact degree of
control is largely irrelevant; it's the lack of reciprocity that makes if
fascist (or authoritarian, if fascist is too precise a word).

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

There ain't no Devil; there's just God when he's drunk.
   -- Tom Waits

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