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- From: rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tim Rigg)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:04:27 CST
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- In-reply-to: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:11:33 GMT
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- In article <Bzo279.JFC@unix.amherst.edu> pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
- : >Jyrki Kuoppala (jkp@cs.HUT.FI) wrote:
- : >
- : >: I hear reports of kids trained to inform to the officials about their
- : >: parents.
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- [lots deleted]
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- That wasn't the claim. The claim was that they were "trained".
- This implies a program of instruction. That's plain silly.
-
- Check out the DARE programs. A common feature of DARE presentations
- is the instructing of children to look for "signs of drug abuse" in
- their parents.
-
- When I went to elementary school, they told us how lucky we were to
- live in America since the children in comunist countries were taught
- their first loyalty should be to the state. My how times change...
-
- tim
- --
- ... Then they came for me,
- and by that time there was no one
- left to speak up for me. (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945)
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