Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> Considering the Nazi regime got its foothold because common folk had 
> justified resentment over how they perceived the government was not 
> handling things, I'd say it's pretty likely

  I disagree. The cultural and historical context was completely different.
Today the western world is extremely careful and watches very closely any
country which shows any symptom of fascist-style ideologies.
  This has actually happened recently in Europe (I can't remember the
country right now).

  For a fascist nation to be born in modern Europe something very radical
has to happen (for example a big-time economical crash), and if that happens,
I don't believe an european totalitarian censorship law is going to prevent
it from happening at all.

  In the end, the (fallacious) principle is simply what Orwell expressed
in his famous book: If people don't have the means to communicate their
opinion, the opinion will die (the basic idea of "newspeak").

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                                                          - Warp

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