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...question is whether we are to surrender political participation or are we not," Walzer answered. He asserted that each individual must come to a decision "even if he lacks sufficient information." We realize we may make a wrong decision, Walzer noted, "but the only alternative is acceptance of a garrison state...
Recently, the government initiated a program of transporting peasants from areas of heavy Communist infiltration and settling them in heavily guarded garrison communities. These "agrovilles" supposedly serve the dual purpose of encouraging agricultural reforms and destroying contacts with the Viet Cong guerrillas by limiting the population movements of inhabitants. But recent crop shortages have prompted the government to force labor from peasants on government projects without pay. Peasant resentment of forced labor and the agroville's limitation of their freedom has naturally been great and the Viet Cong reaction, vituperative...
...past five months, more than 800 marines with battle packs have landed in Guantánamo, boosting garrison strength to at least 1,100 marines and 2,000 sailors...
Because "the garrison state has exalted the goal of military security above all other goods," Thomas claimed, struggles of such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union are "essentially a rear-guard action." He admitted, however, that the cold war made easier the struggle for equality by minority groups...
Even the Supreme Court is not a defense against the loss of liberty under the "garrison state," Thomas maintained, since the Court has expressed its reluctance to interfere with the other branches of the government "especially in cases involving national security...