The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42908   Message #624143
Posted By: Art Thieme
09-Jan-02 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Blind Alfred Reed
Subject: RE: Blind Alfred Reed
Well, I guess it's nice to see someone who really is sure of themselves. That said, the problems start when those convictions stop just being a knock on the door from someone with a magazine to sell and begin being a BANG on the door from someone who wants to cut your head off because you didn't "bob your hair, girls". Civil liberties are being trounced on right now, here and in other places, by people who are "certain" of their beliefs.

And I really don't know what can be done about it. The courts are upholding the overzealousness in the name of "the greater good". Always dangerous.

Sorry for the thread creep. Just on my mind today---and every day, lately, after I've read the morning paper.

Art Thieme