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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 19:19:43 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- >I've heard some claim that we might have had a violent revolution because of
- >the Great Depression if we hadn't had the New Deal (although it could be
- >argued that this WAS the violent revolution).
-
- I think there is only one group of people who might use the phrase "violent
- revolution" to describe the New Deal. This is the same group which has
- started using the word "firestorm" to describe an intellectual confrontation;
- the original meaning of firestorm being a reference to a fire so vast that
- it creates hurricane-force winds.
-
- > Suppose we have another
- >depression, as is argued in "The Great Reckoning". Then the living stan-
- >dard would drop, the press would be more anti-government (if free at all),
- >and revolution achievable, right?
-
- The press might be "anti-government" in the sense that they encouraged
- people to vote for the opposition, but there is a large difference between
- that and, say, encouraging people to blow up government buildings. Or, to
- take a recent example, encouraging people to kill cops.
-
- --
- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
- "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
- -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
-