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Paul L. Siegler, president of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party and a student at the Harvard Business School, said that although strict laws are thought to strengthen society, "to impose a moral code by force is symptomatic of a weak society." He said the proper course for government was to "stop making restrictive laws and to resort to education in the marketplace of ideas...
...fact is that almost no one this side of the anarcho-libertarian right is really opposed to censorship in all forms, and I'm not talking only about Justice Holmes' hoary example of the man who cries "fire" in a crowded theater. The method of liberals proposing to impose censorship seems to be to call it something else, or to call it nothing at all. Their recent successful campaign to ban smoking commercials from television and radio, though never labelled with the ugly word, was a measure of censorship more nearly political than anything I am advocating in this space...
Beny Primm, executive director of Addiction Research and Treatment Corp. in Brooklyn's drug-ravaged Bedford-Stuyvesant area: "I'm not a civil libertarian any more when it comes to the destruction of lives. I hate to sound so conservative, but this is from five years in the field. I see it every day. People say, 'Lock the pushers up, even if they're my son or daughter...
...high swing, Virginia was one of its hostesses, entertaining geniuses destined to fame. Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, and geniuses contracted to obscurity. Saxon Syndey-Turner. Bell reveals the Virginia of the Bloomsbury period to have irresistible, gay, irreverent, charming, flirtatious and independent. Admidst the libertarian affairs of Bloomsbury Virginia was also earnestly training for her craft. She read omnivorously, took up journalism, practiced writing daily, and attempted to compensate for the lack of formal university education she resented having been denied...
Professor Popkin's defense of his refusal to answer certain questions before a grand jury has been characterized as civil libertarian. The correct characterization seems to me to be elitist. Popkin and his lawyers did not argue that everyone should have the right to refuse to answer questions before a grand jury. They argued that "scholars" should have a special privilege...