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To: Thomas M. who wrote (717)	1/30/2003 6:46:17 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 1296

Turning the Tide (p229) <<< At the lunatic fringe we have such organizations as Accuracy in Academia, a spin-off from the reactionary thought-control organization Accuracy in Media (AIM), which monitors the media for deviations from the Party Line. The new offshoot alleges that there are 10,000 Marxist professors on campus (where "Marxist", in their terms, includes people who wouldbe regarded as mainstream moderates in European industrial democracies) out of a total number of 600,000 professors. To combat this threat, they propose to monitor these dangerous creatures, using student spies, the aim being "to promote greater balance," according to director Laslo Csorba. The idea that an advantage of 60 to 1 does not suffice for "balance" captures well thw totalitarian mentality of these elements, as does the very idea, which would be abhorrent to people who had even the most remote conception of the notion of free society. >>>