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to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Gregg Strom/BRYX Int`l
date: 2000-05-18 16:43:34
subject: Re: Freedom and totalitarianism

From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" 

Not to mention removing the right of the "peasants" to have firearms.... gs

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in
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> On Thu, 18 May 2000 16:50:27 -0500, Bill Lucy 
> wrote:
> .....
> >So they only way a person can be "free" is if they are literate?
> >
> >That's rather a strange definition.
> .....
> I know what you mean, Bill, but look at what happened as literacy
> levels rose with the printed book and the industrial revolution.  Look
> at South Korea, Taiwan and goodly chunks of South America.
>
> It's much easier to keep a peasant population down when it's
> illiterate.

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