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Politics : Have you read your constitution today?

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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (358)8/6/2004 12:09:54 AM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (2) of 403
 
<<< ... I'd received a phone call from an old colleague at a Florida newspaper. Decades before, we had teamed up on a story about how one of the earlier outlaw Republican regimes, Richard Nixon's, had quietly built a chain of camps to intern antiwar and civil rights demonstrators.

The idea of camps -- concentration camps, for Chrissakes! -- had been derided as a myth by "official sources." But when we investigated, we had found that the tip panned out. We even snuck into one of the flagships of Nixon's nascent gulag, at Avon Park, Fla. It was real. It was ready. Thank God Watergate derailed Nixon's insane locomotive to hell.

My newspaper pal told me that on a hunch, he recently had driven by Avon Park, "and you know what I found? Things look pretty busy at the old camp." >>>

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