Subj : Re: Communism
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sat Nov 05 2022 11:43:46

On 05 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > All governments, including our own, have peoplewho don't want to follow 
 MP> The difference being that you are allowed to speak out and show your
 MP> disdain for our government, within reason.  Very few communist countries
 MP> have put up for very long with citizens who speak out or show their
 MP> disdain, especially if it starts to draw crowds.
 MP> If the Summer of 2020, or 1/6, had happened in a Communist country, the
 MP> government would have very quickly turned on the protesters.  The leaders
 MP> would have been killed or "disappeared," and hundreds others would have
 MP> been killed or banished to some labor camp.  There are plenty of
 MP> historical events to support this, while there are very, very few that
 MP> support a "no they wouldn't" point of view.

Trump is documented as asking why the BLM protesters couldn't be shot in the
legs.

 MP> Yes, those things can happen in other types of governments, but they are
 MP> very close to a given in a Communist one.

Not necessarily. It's more a function of how corrupt the government is.

Jeff.

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