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30 YEARS AGO REASON.


"We are trapped in the middle of a street war between two breeds of pigs, the police and the New Left."

"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander

"Nothing is more ill-suited for smashing the state than a riot. The state co-opts riots This is a chronological list of riots: 17th century and earlier
  • 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC (Rome, Roman Republic)
  • 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC (Rome, Roman Republic)
  • 390 - Hippodrome Revolt (Thessaloniki, Roman Empire).
; they are its rationale."

"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander

"There is...good reason to believe that early rulers sought and maintained a monopoly in [mail] service because they feared the ready communication of anxiety and popular discontent about their political regimes. Thus, to suspend the legal traffic in private letters was a useful political device--common to all dictatorships--to suppress To stop something or someone; to prevent, prohibit, or subdue.

To suppress evidence is to keep it from being admitted at trial by showing either that it was illegally obtained or that it is irrelevant.
 the circulation of political ferment ferment /fer·ment/ (fer-ment´) to undergo fermentation; used for the decomposition of carbohydrates.

fer·ment
n.
1.
."

"Neither sleet sleet, precipitation of small, partially melted grains of ice. As raindrops fall from clouds, they pass through layers of air at different temperatures. If they pass through a layer with a temperature below the freezing point, they turn into sleet. , nor...s(forget it)," by D.T. Armentano
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