VLVL 3 Zoyd & Hector

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Aug 9 17:36:52 CDT 2003


on 9/8/03 9:27 AM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> So far, the description of Republican government in the US as a "fascist
> regime" (28.10) is Zoyd's hyperbole only.

Cf. the Burket essay Terrance posted earlier:

    Zoyd uses words like "fascist" to describe the government, but
    he does not bother to challenge it or try to resist it; he simply
    evades it as much as possible. Not to mention the fact that, despite
    his protest to the contrary, he has not really avoided becoming an
    agent of the State law enforcement apparatus: his "defenestration"
    performance, paid for with his disability check, shows him really
    to be working for the State whether he admits it or not.

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/burket24.htm#1

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