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The Perils Of Duck Hunting Are Great- Especially For The Duck.

I Don't Think People Ought To Believe Only One News Medium. They Ought To Read And They Ought To Go To Opinion Journals And All The Rest Of It. I Think It's Terribly Important That This Be Taught In The Public Schools, Because Otherwise, We're Gonna Get To A Situation Because Of Economic Pressures And Other Things Where Television's All You've Got Left. And That Would Be Disastrous. We Can't Cover The News In A Half-hour Event Evening. That's Ridiculous.

Attorney General John Ashcroft Has Earned Himself A Remarkable Distinction As The Torquemada Of American Law. Tomás De Torquemada...was Largely Responsible For...[the] Torture And The Burning Of Heretics — Muslims In Particular. Now, Of Course, I Am Not Accusing The Attorney General Of Pulling Out Anyone's Fingernails Or Burning People At The Stake (at Least I Don't Know Of Any Such Cases). But One Does Get The Sense These Days That The Old Spaniard's Spirit Is Comfortably At Home In Ashcroft's Department Of Justice.

The Fact That You Are Here Tonight Gathered Together With Us Testifies To The Fact You Understand The Need For This Organization And The Need For Redoubling Our Efforts In This Organization To Try To Assure That Democracy As Represented By The United States Must Depend Upon A Total Freedom Of Religion, Which Is Written Into Our Constitution, Of Course, And The Mere Suggestion That Anyone Could Maintain That One's Patriotism, One's Devotion To One's Country Can Be Judged By One's Religion Is So Vile, So Vile That We Have To Take To The Streets Indeed And To Put It Aside.

It Seems Now More Certain Than Ever That The Bloody Experience Of Vietnam Is To End In A Stalemate.