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Whether you call it the "robot rule" or the "faithful delegate principle" it is obvious that F(3c) removes from delegates any shred of responsibility or freedom of choice and makes their judgment completely irrelevant. They merely become a human incarnation of the mathematical proportions of the primaries...
...UNITED STATES, the President, the public and Congress have rushed into draft registration. The move had scarcely a shred of military justification; its main impetus was a dangerous desire to "do something about the Russians." However, refusing to register is a drastic step, one not justified by the actual magnitude...
...Human Nature, or the quote, "We are bound as inextricably to our heritage as we are to the shapes of our eyes," from The Genesis Factor. Much of human sociobiology rests upon the speculative assumption of genetic control for social behavior (for which there is not one shred of evidence) with the explicit conclusion that the knowledge of the human genotype will place, limits on the possible forms of social organization accessible to humans. In fact, there is simply no basis for this conclusion in genetic theory...
Indeed, even while the Pakistani attack was going on, Khomeini's office made a statement over Iranian radio blaming the Mecca violence on "criminal U.S. imperialism." It added: "The Muslims must. . . expect this kind of dirty act by American imperialism and international Zionism." There was not a shred of evidence for the accusation, and U.S. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter promptly described it as an "outright, knowing lie." Indeed, the assailants were fundamentalist Muslims whose opposition to all Western influence is similar to Khomeini's archaic views. But though the U.S. has no quarrel with Islam, the report...
...Administration's emergency plans certainly can be criticized on one point: with the demonstrators roaming outside the walls, U.S. personnel should have been able to destroy all documents. The Marine guards held off the mob long enough to enable officials to shred important classified files and smash encoding equipment. No serious security breach is believed to have occurred. But embarrassing documents did fall into the hands of the invaders, and they have been successfully used to inflame mobs in Iran...