--- On Thu, 9/4/08, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> Many years ago I suggested - as an lbo newbie - that the
> foremost task
> of the left would be to win the support of police. Doug
> responded,
> rather forcefully (I thought at the time), something like
> 'never!'.
> Thought I might bring it up again perhaps to elicit a less
> emphatic
> response.
>
[WS:] Not really, Americans will be Americans, whether left or right wing. They share the same distrust of the 'gummint - they differ only in what emodiments of the 'gummint they use in their rhetoric: the IRS and welfare agencies by the right, the army and the police by the left.
Wojtek