>>>>We can only be grateful that once there was a government with and enlightened policy toward rehabilitating dissidents and a brave newspaper that could foresee the consequences of a liberal approach to incarceration.
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>>>>Imagine if this had been left to Guantanemo and Fox News.
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>>>>http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/2284433:2612563868:m:1:114540802:C756776C434C2AD678C65489AD7D5928
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>>>>And Walter Duranty was yet to come.
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>>>Which way are you going here Charles.
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>>>A if only we had Guantanamo in the 1920s we wouldn't have had Hitler and the Nazis
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>>>B Incarceration of political figures leads to their radicalisation.
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>>I am just glad that with all the unpleasantness going on in the 20s they were still able to honor this war veterans civil right's and not detain him indefinitely. Our current administration could well learn a lesson as we detain so many innocent people with the misguided idea that somehow they may do what they say the will do if they are released. ( after all, enlightened minds knew Hitler didn't mean all that stuff in Mein Kampf )
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>Better a thousand innocent detained than one guilty one go free???????
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Well, not usually of course ... unless that one is responsible for millions of deaths. Of course you'd still have to agree that even if they knew in advance what he was likely to do the important anathema regarding preventive detention would be much more important. There are principles involved and up against that what are 20 million or so deaths. It is paramount we feel good about our righteousness - and, most important, achieve popularity.