The stuffed Autocrat

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sun May 12 11:21:04 PDT 2002


May 2002 18:29:47 -0700
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>Dennis Perrin>...this "concern" for Constitutional rights coming from a
>Leninist is a bit rich. I mean, how does one who reveres the now-stuffed
>autocrat...
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I'm not a Leninist (to say the least!), but it seems misguided to me to dismiss him as an "autocrat." He did a lot of high-handed things in the Civil War, but it was a civil war, and those are difficult circumstances. I recall that one revered Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during our own civil war. And it's not Lenin's fault that he was stuffed. He disapproved of that sort of thing. jks

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