30 Years Ago Reason - Brief Article

Reason, Jan, 2000

"We are trapped in the middle of a street war between two breeds of pigs, the police and the New Left."

"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander

"Nothing is more ill-suited for smashing the state than a riot. The state co-opts riots; they are its rationale."

"Animal Farm 1970," by Lanny Friedlander

"There is...good reason to believe that early rulers sought and maintained a monopoly in [mail] service because they feared the ready communication of anxiety and popular discontent about their political regimes. Thus, to suspend the legal traffic in private letters was a useful political device--common to all dictatorships--to suppress the circulation of political ferment."

"Neither sleet, nor...s(forget it)," by D.T. Armentano