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...mass murder. I have written Ronald Reagan to tell him what I have not done, and sent copies of my confession to the Selective Service and the Justice Department. If the United States Government had seen fit to indict and prosecute me, find me guilty and then fine or imprison me. I would have felt that justice had been served. I would have welcomed the opportunity to make my oppositions to registration and the draft as clear as possible. As events would have it, I am indeed being fined, to the tune of $2500, but I have never set foot...
...goal enshrined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but for the citizens of most of the U.N.'s 158 member countries that pledge can seem hollow: governments may censor publications and broadcast outlets if they do not own or operate them directly; officials sometimes imprison journalists for what they print; bureaucrats frequently have the power to decide what information the international wire services can distribute within their nations' borders. Spurred by the Soviet Union, some Third World members and executives of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization have been trying for more than...
...political police bullied both my mother-who was already advanced in years-and my sister. One day, threatening to imprison my sister, they forced my mother to write that I was an enemy of all peoples, that the solitary confinement and the maltreatment I suffered were only what I deserved and that I should be grateful to the revolution...
...sometimes the music is a weapon, and sometimes it is a trap. For centuries, Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...
...marked our political life for 40 years. While I do not want to deny the past, I do think that my generation is tired. They would like to put it behind them once and for all." It might not prove so easy. The Butcher of Lyon can no longer imprison and torture, but he still has the means to make France suffer...