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Civil rights advocates have tended to follow this style of advocacy in recent years. The great free speech and civil rights cases of the Warren Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...another reputed Unabomber letter, mailed in Davis, Calif., surfaced at the offices of The New York Times and The Washington Post today. If either paper publishes the 35,000-word manuscript, which rails against a corrupt industrial-technological society, the bomber would stop killing people. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomber has not promised to halt a campaign of property damage.Unabomber Page
...historic complaints on this side. Mexicans feel that our effort to fight drugs and organized crime in terms of the size of our country and the resources available is much bigger than the effort made in the U.S. Mexicans keep wondering why we seize cocaine, why we arrest corrupt policemen, and why that seldom happens...
...overheard conversations between Republican members who had attended the Harvard orientation, and they said they were disgusted by what they heard in a political sense," Berkowitz said. "They were hearing people tell them how to perpetuate a system that they thought was corrupt...
Third-party thinking thrives on a sense that the two parties are both corrupt and directionless, interested in their own tenure rather than real reform. And the most urgent business in need of reform-the wellspring of the Perot campaign-was the yawning federal deficit that a Republican President and a Democratic Congress were unable and unwilling to do anything about...