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If I lived in Iraq, Singapore, Nazi Germany
Posted by: Luke Kuhn ( Utopian Anarchist Party, USA ) on December 03, 1997 at 18:00:20:
In Reply to: In Singapore, China, and Iraq, you have no freedom...period. posted by Mike Bacon on November 26, 1997 at 10:47:14:
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: Let me get this straight, Luke. You would rather risk contracting AIDS and/or other STD's than work for McDonald's or other major firms? Keep in mind that the above consequences are much faster - and deadly - than eating meat...or working for "those nasty corporate fatcats".
: Did you have absolute democracy when you were going to school? When you were at home with Mom and Dad? And it isn't just the firms that have a no illegal drugs policy. If a cop catches you with with pot, you are sure to be arrested, and if convicted, there's a damn good chance you'll be imprisoned longer than most murderers. No, it isn't a fair sentence, but then again you made the choice to break the law. The law has also been known to crack down on prostitutes...just a thought. In jail, you ain't got no freedom!!! [I don't like the idea of having to take a crap right out in the open...on a metal toilet!!!]
: Now, let's take a look at China, Singapore, Iraq, and the others. You have to watch your mouth, and you could get thrown in jail just for spitting on the sidewalk. In Iraq, merely being born can be a crime. Funny, I don't think it's so bad over here working for a large firm.
: And when I leave the office for the day, that's where freedom starts, and most firms do not dictate to their employees do's and don'ts on their spare time. I pretty much do as I please...but I don't break the law. The thought of getting spaced out scares the shit out of me. I have been drunk a few times in the past...it's no picnic coming out of it.
If I lived in Iraq, Singapore, Nazi Germany, or some other such regime I would fight them the only way you can-with armed force. I would fight them until I was either killed in battle(I would not be taken alive)or until the war was won. In Iraq(and also Iran) there are armed revolutionary movements While they have not done well, I still feel that death in battle it to be preferred to submission to such a regime. Indeed, I would rather die than submit to any form of imprisonment. Like I said earlier, I feel that freedom is a PREREQUISITE to my being interested in being alive at all! You mention school-I felt it was a prison sentence(see my post "corporate predators working hand-in-hand with the government" elsewhere in this section of the discussion group). Indeed, a lot of young people run away because they hate school. If you want to know what a police crackdown on male prostitution would get, just consider the 1969 Stonewall Riot that launched Gay Liberation in 1969-and was not the last time.
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