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As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
Revolution is a science only a few are competent to practice. It depends on correct organization and, above all, on communications. Then, at the proper moment in history, they strike. Correctly organized and properly timed it is a bloodless coup. Done clumsily or prematurely and the result is civil war, mob violence, purges, terror.
‘Sovereign,’ like ‘love,’ means anything you want it to mean; it’s a word in dictionary between ‘sober’ and ‘sozzled.’
‘Because it wasn’t in the news. A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers … and its greatest strength is a “free press” when “free” is defined as “responsible” and the managers define what is “irresponsible.”
and thereby avoid the chronic sickness of representative government, the disgruntled minority which feels – correctly! – that it has been disenfranchised.
