Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:31:17 -0800 (PST)
Hitler was a failed artist with soft hands. His brown-shirts were general
low-life miscreants. Many of the Bolsheviks were intellectuals with soft
hands and no muscles. Would you kill a man over a stolen pig?, or maybe a
stolen watermelon. People in the city are killed for things of less value.
I expect the very worse from my fellow man, 'if' things become as bad as some
are forcasting........................
--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I really think you are underestimating the barbarity present just beneath
> >the sheen of civilization. Maybe you are right. People yawned and laughed
> >at Hitler and his brown-shirts. People yawned and laughed at the peasants
> >in Russia, before 1917. You were worldly once, maybe you are , now, too
> >far removed ?......................................
>
> I have to agree with James. Can you see the out of work stock analysts
> starting a revolution? As soon as they got out of range of a cell tower,
> they'd quit. Of course, I'd LIKE to see a good revolution get started, but
> I sure wouldn't count on bureaucrats to carry through.