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Offline GreyGeek

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Suppose you were fond of books ...
« on: March 23, 2013, 09:48:05 AM »
and the government came after them?   After all, look at how many lives were lost because of folks reading Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, or the Turner Diaries, and then acting upon what they read.
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Offline Phantom

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Re: Suppose you were fond of books ...
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2013, 12:28:19 PM »
I think Ray Bradbury described it best all ready in Fahrenheit 451.
"If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.....Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated.  "-- Sheridan, "Babylon 5"