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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Dänk 1010011010  writes:   
      
   > "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.  If that   
   > is granted, all else follows."  -- 1984   
   >   
   > I was in Cambodia a few weeks ago and the tour guide told us the   
   > story of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and how they killed everybody   
   > with an education.  They went into schools and asked the children   
   > what two plus two was, and anyone who answered 'four' was taken out   
   > and shot.  The remaining children caught on quickly and began   
   > answering 'five' instead to save themselves.   
      
   Somewhere (I can't find it in CEJL; I suppose I read it in the   
   Collected Works), Orwell recalls having read that after the   
   suppression of the Paris Commune, the police were under orders to   
   shoot the ringleaders, and they decided that any arrestee who showed a   
   sign of being educated was probably a ringleader.  One was shot for   
   wearing a wristwatch; another, for having an "intelligent face".   
   Orwell commented, "I should not like to be shot for having an   
   intelligent face".   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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