On Oct 14, 12:54 am, Richard Fallstrom 
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> In article , Josh Hill
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> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:15:53 -0700, "DavidE.Powell"
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> > >On Oct 10, 11:11 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:26:12 -0700, "DavidE.Powell"
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> > >> >On Oct 9, 1:24 pm, Josh Hill
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> > >> >> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:56:32 -0700,
"DavidE.Powell"
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> > >> >> I confess I'm one of the purists. I mean, the
movie robbed the book of
> > >> >> most of its thought and intelligence -- which
is pretty much par for a
> > >> >> movie. But in the process of doing that, they
lost the message, made
> > >> >> Heinlein seem like a fascist rather than the
libertarian that he was.
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> > >> >True, the movie was basically a parody of Fascism in
a lot of ways,
> > >> >and indoctrination. Problem was that Heinlein wasn't that.
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> > >> >What I would really like to see would be a properly
done version of
> > >> >"The Long Watch" as a movie. I think that
story remains very relevant
> > >> >today.
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> > >> I didn't remember that story, so I looked it up in
Wikipedia and it's
> > >> in not one but two books I've read. -- What were we talking about?
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> > >A young soldier is caught in a mutiny on a moonbase which threatens to
> > >compromise nuclear weapons capable of hitting Earth.
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> > Weird that I don't remember it. But I see what you mean about its
> > relevance.
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> I seem to recall it was a short story by Heinlein called /The/ /Long/
> /Watch/ in his book "The Past Through Tomorrow"

That could be it, I read it in a collection of short stories. One of
those books of various short stories where you're like "OK... OK...
OK... ...Wow."

> Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
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