1994-11-17 - Lock & Key

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From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
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From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:51:22 PST
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From Nat Hentoff's column in this week's Voice:

In 1952, A. J. Muste--in an essay, "Of Holy Disobedience"--spoke of Georges
Bernanos, the novelist, who refused to stay in France under the Nazis.  One
of the Bernanos passages quoted by Muste is not without contemporary relevance:

"The moment, perhaps, is not far off when it will seem...natural for us to
leave the front-door key in the lock at night so the police may enter, at
any hour of the day or night...."

(Remember the Bill Clinton-Henry Cisneros proposal last spring that people
who live in public housing projects should sign an agreement allowing the
police--without a warrant--to enter any time to seize drugs and
perpetrators?  Our wholly irrelevant attorney general, Janet Reno, did not
object.)





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