On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:59:27PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
>             John le Carr�
> 
>             America has entered one of its periods of historical madness,
> but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the
> Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the
> Vietnam War.

This is the start of another novel, right? 

> As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of
> the world are being systematically eroded.

I agree that freedoms are being eroded and that it needs to be
stopped. But why not list the problems and discuss address them
specifically instead of making exagerated statements like this:

> The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests
> is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in
> every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast
> press.


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"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>       http://www.erikreuter.net/
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