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December 3rd, 2002
We are a long way from establishing anything like the Taliban in America — but not far at all from having imposed on us a version of truth that would justify the suspension of our civil liberties and other constitutional inconveniences. We won’t stone anybody to death for objecting to having their computers downloaded, or for declining to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or for skipping the “under God” addendum. But there are those who would extract a price for these breaches — and evidence that the rest of us might let them — if only for the duration of the “crisis.”
By William Raspberry
Washington Post, Monday, December 2, 2002; Page A21