"Elect us and we shall restore law and order."

[kpete]

“Law and order” ... is a phrase that has appeal for most citizens, who, unless they themselves have a powerful grievance against authority, are afraid of disorder. In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni with these words:

The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order.

There was prolonged applause. When the applause died down, the student quietly told his listeners: “These words were spoken in 1932 by Adolf Hitler.”


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[hobbit709]

1. the more things change...

[GGJohn]

2. The more they are the same. eom

[HereSince1628]

5. Yes, because that approach emerges from human nature

Which has strange attractors which themselves are undetected, nonetheless demonstrably keep returning the trajectory of our choices to the same paths.

[phantom power]

3. The Wave

They showed this movie to us when it came out in 1981 (I would have been 12). I'm actually very, very glad somebody put it up on the Inter-tubes. Clearly, more people these days need to see it.

1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.

[Scuba]

4. To paraphrase Dick Gregory, everybody's talking about law and order, nobody's talking about justice.

[ck4829]

6. The point of government is law and order

Anyone who runs on that is a liar and is running the prelude to atrocity as history has shown us.