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Weird, isn't it?
You start by teaching 6-year olds that they have to get permission to go to the bathroom.
You keep the process going by making arbitrary restrictions on junior-high and high school students, constantly threatening them about the effect "your non-conformance will have on your permanent record, mister".
This leads straight into the acceptance of the mindset that unless you have a permit from the government to do something, like drive, fish, ride a bike, etc., you may not do that action, and even if you do have such a license, you have to submit to "reasonable restrictions".
Pretty soon, you will have them asking for permission to paint their front door a different color, or put some window boxes up, or help your kid put a clubhouse up in the backyard. People will even become convinced that it is OK to ban anything that might conceivably offend some other person.
Before long, you will be able to place armed guards at key points in the transportation system, and make people produce a picture ID at any time and at any place, and once you then disarm the populace, can have a fully developed police state, with the tacit acceptance of the entire population.
Yeah, it happened in other countries, but Americans are too darned smart to fall for it. It could never happen here...
[ 04-08-2003, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Thorfinn ]
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