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Sedition and Opportunity

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday November 06, 2005 03:36author by Kingfisher

Real democracies are populated with active not passive citizens; passivity is characteristic of totalitarian and other oppressive regimes. Prior to any government or ruling body eliminating hard-won liberties and circumventing constitutional rights, the population must necessarily become timid, fearful, apathetic and passive. How simple it becomes to harness and manipulate such a population!

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