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It is interesting how little people understand history and how this has been the norm over the millenia. These things happened in Babylon and in Persia thereafter. It happened in Rome and Greece. It happened in 7th century Arabia and continues to today. It happened in the 15th Spain until the 19th century. It happened in Europe in the early 20th century. It happened in Russia from the early to late 20th century. It happened in the USA in the mid 20th century. It has happened in China since the early 20th century. It is happening now in all sorts of countries throughout the world today. These are just a small selection of this problem happening at various times and in various places throughout history.

The warnings about this have been know for a long, long time and it requires vigilance on the part of the citizens of every nation to play their part in protecting the freedoms one has.

Unfortunately, there are far too many who get all too easily offended and are all too easily lead into fear by whatever leadership exists in their respective countries.

We have no resilience in our populations today.



"These things happened... this problem... the warnings about this"

What specifically happened? What is the commonality that you see?


People who gain power and then use that power to dominate others, especially with violence.




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