--- "kakki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Funny you would think first if (an admittedly over-zealous) group of U.S. >anti-communists as an example rather than the actual communist countries who >had a demonically large bureaucracy of "snitches" in their society for >decades to rat out dissendents who were then systematically "eliminated," >i.e. executed, for not falling in line with the "system." I think the >communist model is the one which we should all be frightened of ever >emulating in any way.
Agreed. But the topic for discussion _is_ the U.S., not Czechoslovakia, Roumania, East Germany, the U.S.S.R., etc. And, also include in my list of those spied upon: Pre-Taft-Hartley labor organizers (and, as a pre-emptive nod, I'm not suggesting Sacco & Vanzetti or the I.W.W.). And, regarding your last sentence, I believe that _any_ model, foreign or domestic, is to be feared. My point is that, in the U.S., we tend to have a very short memory of our own very long history--which runs both left and right. Denny, returned from too much air travel, but still possessing good humor and respect for airport security, while having murder in my heart for Southwest Airlines baggage handlers. Grrrrrr.
