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...disagree with Larew's belittling the importance of AWARE Week, and his implication that it is a waste of time for Harvard students just because widespread overt racism has not been manifested on our campus...
Ultimately, Christian critics of the millenarians can argue that they are guilty of two errors. One is emulating Abbot Joachim's egotistic heresy: falsely assuming that the age in which they live is unique. The other mistake -- an undertone in some of the Armageddon literature but overt in much of the computerized End Days babbling -- is to interpret events in the gulf with eschatological glee, as if the real message were "Hey, fellas, our troubles are almost over." No one has the right to that assumption. History unfurls as God's secret, wrote the French novelist Leon Bloy...
During the Vietnam War, the anti-democratic forces were present, albeit not as overt. There was no Sedition Act or widespread jailing of certain parts of the population. But intolerance and repression became part of the social fabric. Police violently ended student demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard. In 1970, National Guardsmen inexplicably killed four students at Kent State University. The injustice of the murders there is widely recognized now, but in a poll taken just after the incident, four out of five Americans backed the officers' actions...
...President's hand by exercising another power found in Article I, Section 8: refusing to fund the war, as Congress eventually did in Vietnam. But the ultimate check on White House adventurism may be the one noted by the late American historian Clinton Rossiter: "The people with their overt or silent resistance, not the court with its power of judicial review, will set the only practical limits to arrogance of abuse...
Today advertisers' influence may be less overt, but the content of TV shows remains heavily monitored. Remember the gay couple on Thirty-something who disappeared mysteriously after a few episodes? The advertisers sponsoring the show are suspected of threatening to withdraw their support...