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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen I first heard Hitch give this answer, I didn't really understand it...
These days, I do.
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When I first heard Hitch give this answer, I didn't really understand it... (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Aug 2014
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zeemike
(18,998 posts)1. And he lived in a country where the cops were not armed.
He would be frightened to death today,
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)2. K&R
We've been down this road before. Control of the government, control of the media, legalized propaganda against the citizenry, unending war against a nebulous villain and the torture, beating and killing of those who would challenge it.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)3. I heard the reason why just yesterday on the radio.
When he was a little boy, his parents had him locked up in a real jail for a short time to teach him a lesson for some minor offense. He never got over it, and even refused to ever drive a car, for fear of being pulled over by a policeman. Gives new insight to the scene in Psycho where the girl gets pulled over by the cop.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)4. Did you mean Hitchcock?
Isn't that who is speaking?