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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: John Kerry wants free speech "hammered out of existence"
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:45:09 +1100
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On 19/10/2024 2:56 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:10:58 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Speaking at a WEF meeting (Globalism Central) among like-minded cronies,
>> Kerry says he wants independent media and dissent "hammered out of
>> existence" and that means the First Amendment has to go. This is blatant,
>> out-and-out totalitarianism reminiscent of the darkest Soviet times.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwP4Krvreo
> 
> Basically by definition, the Left wants to control everything; it's a
> power lust thing.

For John Larkin's definition of the left, which assumes that all 
left-wingers want an authoritarian socialist - Soviet Communist style - 
regime.

Most socialists know that this is bad idea - and Karl Marx got thrown 
out of the International Socialist organisation in 1871 for endorsing it.
> Since they assume that they understand social and economic systems, no
> matter how complex, and control everything, it makes sense that they
> would define dissenting theories as "disinformation" and make such
> illegal.

The "control everything" part is the problem. US big business has the 
same kind of ambition,and the US was the first country to introduce 
anti-trust legislation in an attempt to control. It clearly didn't go 
far enough.

> That dynamic is one reason that centrally-controlled economies do so
> badly, and tend to kill millions.

As Trump did when he tried to control the US response to the Covid-19 
epidemic which probably a million more Americans than it would have done 
under a better-informed regime.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney