IP: Re Herblock on Liberty

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:05:27 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Charles Brownstein <cbrownst () cnri reston va us>
> Subject: Re: IP: Herblock on Liberty
>
> Not withstanding the total need to not give up America, I find myself 
> ambivalent by comparison of cold war hysteria with the present reactions:
> Some factors:
> - The battle is not hypothetical
> - I am combatant no matter who I am
> - My environment is a take no prisoners battlefield
> - My participation is not optional
> - All of the above is defined by the enemy for everyone, including themselves.
> - Apart from patsy opportunists not in authority (eg Pat Buchannen, Pat 
> Robertson) there has been nothing comparable to McCarthy.


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