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Subject:
Mussolini's Myth
From:
Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "The Cracked Monitor"
Date:
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:13:19 -0400
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, J.A. Drew Diaz wrote:

> I can't imagine this guy as a mayor-
> Democracies can thrive in the presence of street crime, hookers,
> pornography & jay walking
> where they can't thrive is in the absence of civil liberties.
> Mussolini made the trains run on time & Hitler liked dogs.

No, Mussolini did not make the trains on time.

The fact that everybody repeats this hoary old slogan does not
retroactively make it true.

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com

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