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IP: Re: PRAVDA can see the disaster of the PATRIOT Act?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 15:16:44 -0500
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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