<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">btw, does really _everybody_ in the us believe that f-o-s is the sine qua non condition of 'true' democracy (maybe i am making this up ?). </BLOCKQUOTE> I don't know about _everybody_; it certainly doesn't include Charles, who believes in 'free speech' for a small circle of political friends. I do believe, however, that freedom of speech is a sine qua non of a democratic political regime, and I don't think I am alone here on this issue. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>