From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 19:41:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF3037BACB for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r41.bfm.org [216.127.220.137]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:42:28 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000329214129.00866210@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:41:29 -0600 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38E2C5BC.A1CED34E@originative.co.uk> References: <20000329133624.5372F37B55A@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:10 30-03-2000 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >One of the things people often forget when considering insurrections of >the people are that the armed forces of the govt are also the people. >You won't get the army killing friends and relatives, or fellow >countrymen, just because the govt says so. Just as a side note: I grew up in Czechoslovakia, a country that no longer exists because it split into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The government of Czechoslovakia was aware of the point you made, so they sent most Czechs to military service in Slovakia, and most Slovaks to what is now the Czech Republic. There used to be tension between Czechs and Slovaks, even hatred, especially before 1968. The government was hoping they could use Slovak soldiers to control Czech civilians, and Czech soldiers to control Slovak civilians. I believe it had the opposite effect actually. Young men of each nation got to know the people of the other nation, found many friends, and the tensions were lessened. They eventually decided to split into two countries, and did it quite peacefully. Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message