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Nat Hentoff's Greatest Hits

Excerpts from his first 50 years at the Voice

Comments (0) By Nat Hentoff Tuesday, Jan 1 2008
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Last Tuesday, a friend, an inveterate civil libertarian, called me as broken bodies were still being placed on stretchers.

"This is going to cause a surge by government—local, state, and federal—to shred the Bill of Rights," he said. "And it will be cheered by an enthusiastic, indignant public."

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If he's right, and American history would indicate he is, the relatively few uncompromising civil libertarians among us will again be regarded with contempt and continuous suspicion by both the authorities and the populace.

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