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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (63395)	10/23/2002 1:52:49 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

SI is acting up, so my high speed cable modem is useless for getting things popping. Anyway, I am sure we will have an opportunity for further trials.....

To: epicure who wrote (63395)	10/23/2002 4:31:47 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Was reading an E.B. White essay over lunch, "Bedfellows." Highly relevant to things we've been talking about -- even though written in 1956 it has a lot to say to us today. One quote he gives is from Justice Brandeis -- "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." He also cites Adlai Stevenson: "I very well know that in many minds 'criticism' has today become an ugly word It has become almost lese majeste. It conjures up pictures of insidious radicals hacking away at the very foundations of the American way of life. It suggests nonconformity and nonconformity suggests disloyalty and disloyalty suggests treason, and before we know where we are, this process has all but identified the critic with the saboteur and turned political criticism into an un-American activity instead of democracy's greatest safeguard." Words as important today -- if not more important --than when they were written.