Word: totalitarianisms
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...trying to block international URLs from American computers, Quittner also sees the bill as a threat to basic freedoms. "I find it objectionable that the government would feel the need to act as a proxy in this way," he says. "This is exactly the kind of thing a totalitarian regime would undertake - in fact, it's exactly what the Chinese government has already done...
...Last Wednesday, Harvard hosted Jane Fonda, an active supporter of America's totalitarian opponent in the Vietnam conflict (News, March 16). On Thursday, Harvard hosted Patrick Buchanan, a controversial politician with unpopular views (News, March 17). The contradiction in student reaction to the speeches and in your coverage of the speeches amazes me. Attendees of Fonda's speech warmly received her, and never questioned her about her actions in support of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam. Similarly, the news article neglected to mention that aspect of her past. Buchanan, on the other hand, was widely protested, and audience members...
...callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian lengths...
...British government has already set a strong precedent by upholding the Spanish judge's extradition order and arresting the former dictator in October of 1998 while he was in London for back surgery. This sent a message to totalitarian rulers worldwide that they would be held accountable for their appalling actions. No longer could they hide behind titles or claim immunity as heads of state, as Pinochet attempted...
...parties vie for power through the ballot box. There are some 65,000 nongovernmental organizations and approximately 900,000 private businesses where there were none a decade ago. A pluralist political system and civil society, competing in the world markets and plugged into the Internet, have emerged from a totalitarian monolith that was closed off from the outside world and implacably hostile to our values and interests...