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br> To use this to frighten a gullible throng. /p> p>Hanging onto something that can be discredited br> Hasn't the substantial clout he once bet it did. br> -- Mimi Evans Winship /p> p> ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS br> Re: Ralph R. Reiland's Unbridled Judicial Arrogance : /p>

First, Justice William O. Douglas should not be held up as infallible on anything. History has taught us that, at least.

In the Douglas quotation presented, Douglas was correct in some respect. "It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate." "There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion and no limits on thought." "No censor must preside at our assemblies." But he was dead wrong when he wrote "No subject must be taboo."

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