Abusive power and the culture of obedience
Campaign For Liberty
by Bretigne Shaffer
05/07/09
Ask anyone who has lived under a repressive regime and they can tell you how it changes people. There are the obvious things like the fear of the knock at the door in the middle of the night, the loss of control over even the most mundane aspects of one’s own life and people using the apparatus of the state to settle personal grudges. But beneath all of these are deeper changes to the the way people behave and the way they treat each other. There is the unwillingness to smile or speak to strangers, or even to open up too much to friends for fear of information getting into the wrong hands...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=66
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=obedience
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bretigne+Shaffer
by Bretigne Shaffer
05/07/09
Ask anyone who has lived under a repressive regime and they can tell you how it changes people. There are the obvious things like the fear of the knock at the door in the middle of the night, the loss of control over even the most mundane aspects of one’s own life and people using the apparatus of the state to settle personal grudges. But beneath all of these are deeper changes to the the way people behave and the way they treat each other. There is the unwillingness to smile or speak to strangers, or even to open up too much to friends for fear of information getting into the wrong hands...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=66
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=obedience
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bretigne+Shaffer
rudkla - 8. Mai, 09:58
