IP: Re: PRAVDA can see the disaster of the PATRIOT Act?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

What Paul says is usually right on djf


> From: Paul Saffo <psaffo () iftf org>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> CC: Paul Saffo <psaffo () iftf org>
>
> on 11/4/01 1:38 AM, David Farber at dave () farber net wrote:
>
>  Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:21:05 -0500
> >>
> >> http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/01/19832.html
> >>
> >> THE TREE OF FREEDOM HAS FADED FOREVER
> >>
> ----------(snip)-----------
>
> While we should all read Mr. Litvinovich's comments carefully,
> he repeats mistake that generations of his predecessors at Pravda made
> before the fall of the Berlin Wall -- underestimating the resilience and
> adaptability of our Democratic system.
>
> The US has an unhappy history of short-term overreaction to threats (just
> ask the Japanese-Americans interned in WWII), BUT in the long-term, we have
> always renounced those excesses and continued to nurture and extend our
> freedoms.  My forecast is that the worse the short-term stupidities are his
> time, the more robust the positive long-term reaction will be.
> -p


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