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"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects
by hirundo 8y ago
"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." -- Robert Heinlein, Revolt in 2100
- jtr_47 8y agoSecrecy is another tool. The real keystones are the implied use of imprisonment, violence and death, if you don't obey. When a government no longer abides by their constitutional oath (if they have one) and does not respect the people it is supposed to represent, then you will have tyranny.
- aliswe 8y ago"The rack" ?
- dictum 8y agoI thought it was something like a parrilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrilla_(torture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrilla_(torture) but it's another form of torture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_(torture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_(torture)