FWD: Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2001

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In einer eMail vom 17.06.01 07:53:20 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
fqmorris at hotmail.com:

> Parliaments are a mob, and Parliament IS government.  Some protection for 
>  minorities must be insured against the mob.
But that's not the point. In whole West Europe every member of every sect you 
can imagine can do what he/she wants,as long as they don't hurt the laws. But 
such "minorities" are often terrorizing their neighbours: ask the inhibitants 
of little communities, villages, towns etc., where a sect has its centre. And 
the Scientologists tried to infiltrate the whole economy with their own 
members, they have their own secret service, a.s. o. The Scientologists are 
still not forbidden in Germany, but the intelligence service 
("Verfassungsschutz") is watching them. I'm absolutely sure that several 
sects in the U. S. are watched by the FBI or the intelligence service. It 
depends on their real behaviour. First amendment? Okay, but as we say here, 
"Papier ist geduldig", paper is patient, what means: the constitution is one 
thing, the reality another.

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