Safe against Brecht:
Getlein, Frank
In this sense, the encyclical merits their careful reading. It ment of human rights. The Pope endorses no political formulas contains a strong commitment to three themes of Vatican II: ...
...Sure, vidual outrages have been turning up ments he has taken with him...
...In- trying to...
...tercepts, whatever, on Bertolt Brecht...
...all means throw shadows, bugs, mail inliterature, James K. Lyon, who brought a It all goes beyond Nixon, of course...
...Lyon found about 1947...
...All these manifestations of our Martin took the documents in order to the hands of the national security freaks national security madness have been write a book defending himself against who will cheerfully spend everything the around for some time, but it does seem charges he anticipated in a book by country can produce in pursuit of the that in the last couple of months indi- Henry Kissinger based on secret docu- phantom goal of total security...
...Sometime, somewhere, miracle we do escape national incinera- lowed them to be stolen...
...Hit him...
...bewilderment...
...The Justice Department on Bertolt Brecht, the late, great play- ing stations, subverting the mails and brought suit, even while admitting no wright...
...At another level, it may planning," the very accomplishments of humankind turn back be exactly what will establish a new kind of papal authority inn against their creators...
...If madness in action is some private letters-presumably the madness has paralleled the growth of defined as an inappropriate response, nafilched from the U.S...
...making them the ruin they are today, 11 May 1979: 261 carefully filing reports on the latest pro- noted, "One must also ask if the enorm- we get, and the deadlier, the more we duction of Mother Courage as being sub- ous amounts of time, energy and money tremble...
...But what dently if not on purpose-the only way to carelessly left them in an unlocked car, in about the taxpayers who paid for all this save it, fellows,-and that if by some violation of another law, and thus al- nonsense...
...were justified, not to mention ations we mount against our own citiWar...
...Frank Snepp was a handling of the two cases, so close to- no farther away than the neighborhood CIA man in Saigon during the last days of gether, does make you wonder what meeting of the PTA-after all, they're the American adventure there...
...It is true the FBI's shadowing of Thereupon Justice will drop the case They are in pursuit of an impossible Brecht had a note or two of redeeming rather than risk the shattering of national dream and the very pursuit moves the social value...
...Money is no last 13 years of his life...
...achieve an absolute degree of a amelioration, against tyranny-has yet stead Justice will try the underlings...
...For this, the somehow, there has to be a kind of Proption we are headed inescapably for na- Justice Department has announced that it osition 13 in favor of sanity, pulling our tional bankruptcy in the name of national will do nothing...
...uniting power of the Eucharist...
...Lyon will, certainly not the would think someone would draw the bureaucracy...
...Can we afford this kind of expense...
...The artist was in prosecuted, that freedom of the press is Meanwhile, Graham Martin himself good shape...
...Human dignity is threatened by the an age when people will not honor the keys of Peter because disparity between rich societies and poor and by the curtail- they can fetter but because they can liberate...
...The general belief is that increasingly hard-earned dollars out of security...
...tional security...
...The way we all found out security with the news that the Nixonians dream ever farther from attainment...
...He got out President Carter had in mind when he discussing handicapped children-but and wrote a book pointing out in some talked about identical treatment for the offence of the security maniacs that detail what was widely known even small-time crooks and "big shot" will finally turn the Republic against without detail, namely that the Agency crooks...
...author also had some unflattering things idiocy, however, the prize item in that Brecht, for instance...
...Doubtless this held true on Capitol Hill where Add to this phenomenon the escalating fear of The Rusthe basic politician, even the most well-meaning one, was sians...
...But along came the nuclear dential candidates...
...Just a jackknife has Macheath, the greatest danger to national been used in the book, no national sec- dear, and he keeps it out of sight...
...Since let off because he would have to violate such thing as national security...
...Right urity "secrets" were revealed, except Were they serious...
...And, all together, it makes the upcoming Commonweal: 262...
...Then, consider that the United States Senate is the often ill at ease with the Pentagon's acronymic jargon of current political home of at least six publicity-starved presiMIRVs, ABMs, ICBMs, etc...
...Even so...
...organizations with non-Nixonian views...
...Wouldn't formula now exists in the case of L. Pat- sleep better at night...
...They were serious...
...Lyon suring our security...
...What One must, but it seemed unlikely any- ledge and easily demonstrable, you about cutting down the dread federal one but Dr...
...Not much, apparently...
...Oddly enough, the growth of object...
...Surabaya Johnny...
...The Pope endorses no political formulas contains a strong commitment to three themes of Vatican II: but insists on the Christian call to faithful service and on the open, though tempered, discussion in the church...
...It freedom of information action against the The Monster of San Clemente was just isn't that we know Brecht is guilty-as in bureau to get selected items from its the caricature of a national security mad- fact he turned out not to be-but that we 1,000 page report on Brecht covering the ness shared by all administrations since don't know he's innocent...
...The burglars out into the private sector, we'd from the Times and Variety...
...Show me duh vay to duh next vhiskey bar...
...We are neither of those positions-pro- national security to defend himself...
...about the case was through a professor of were crooks...
...Since that correlation is public knowWhat about tightening the old belt...
...O.K., granted the FBI are now and Of several minds: Frank Getlein always have been a bunch of idiots, scared stiff at the prospect of the Red Menace worming its way into America the Beautiful disguised as medical insurSAFE AGAINST BRECHT ance, a living wage or other Commie THE REAL THREAT TO NATIONAL SEC= plots...
...blessed with the FBI...
...the moral and legal implications such an zens, the more we fear for our security...
...mails,-that the military panoply and the crepe-soled tional security is crazy as a coot and so showed a rare tenderness in Brecht...
...This is why otherwise sane executhis country, outside the mind of J. Edgar Gray as a witness, namely to testify that tive office-holders go bananas at the Hoover, could we just call the whole he told them to go out and break in to mention of the two little words, "nathing off...
...one must sympathize with anyone's felt time they got the chance-trample on the There was a matched pair of cases that need to defend himself from Kissingerian Bill of Rights in defense against the godtell us a lot we wish weren't true about attack, but still the Justice Department's less atheists of the Kremlin who may be national security...
...FBI-CIA operversively opposed to the Thirty Years spent...
...At one level, such a personal approach-and again the tion, on human dignity...
...the reviews tell us all we need to know, rick Gray, under whose leadership of the The essential error in making national namely that the dangerous playwrights FBI the burglaries against the Socialist security the top national consideration it are once more coming out for social Workers Party were committed...
...Trench-coated Martin's conduct before and during the news that for 13 years the FBI kept an eye agents slithering into basement monitorgrand exit...
...Pre- quality extremely difficult even to debeen or is likely to be declared a crime in dictably, the underlings will subpoena fine...
...Thirto report about Ambassador Graham permanent story recently has been the teen years and nothing...
...A Questions arise not about the freedom of suring that criminals walk the street not compliant judge ruled viciously against the artist-or anyone else in a society even brought to trial let alone vigorously the author and the case is now on appeal...
...The more illegal...
...ecumenism...
...The more weapons delusions...
...Oh, don't ask vy, Oh don't AT LAST rr is clear beyond denial: classified documents of any kind had ask vy...
...and collegiality...
...For John Paul II, this dignity is Holy Thursday letter comes to mind-may conflict with the threatened by the way in which, without "rational and honest Pope's institutional responsibilities...
...The For connoisseurs of national security lack of results...
...The budget...
...For thirteen years, and nothing...
...and enormity...
...security is national security...
...His wife used to amuse hercurtailed, that the country lives in the left Saigon with a trunkful of secret, sen- self dictating recipes from a Polish cookserious risk of blowing itself up acci- sitive documents, in violation of law, book into her tapped telephone...
...FRANK GETLEIN IN THE END POLITICS WILL COUNT SALT sellers PETER KOVLER power plant accident at Three Mile Island and, even though there are few real similarities between meltdowns and mushBECAUSE THEY have been so arcane and so abstract, room clouds, in Washington (which is only 150 miles from debates about nuclear war, nuclear arms and nuclear Harrisburg) the dangers of the nuclear age have suddenly strategies have almost always provoked boredom or become awesomely real...
...Gray is has been for 30 years is that there is no amelioration, against tyranny...
...Certainly they'd be happy to-have done, every with increasing speed...
...them is the sheer cost for the sheer total had fallen all over itself in Vietnam...
...now, this minute, national security is en- the long-public one of CIA ineptitude...
...Offhand, can Justice Department devoted to sheltering obvious conclusions: namely that if we you think of a better place to start than from justice members of the department cut back on military spending, we'd be firing the poet-playwright squad, hiring found out to have committed criminal more secure, if we got the government in its place a G-3 clerical to clip reviews acts against the populace at large...
...shoe squads that are supposed to be en- are most of the people caught up in its That's something, although as Dr...
...operation has...
...More central, however, is its focus not on the Redemptor Hominis expresses an intergratod personal vischurch per se but on Christ and, in the mystery of the Incarna- ion...
...Nothing...
...Bert Brecht...
Vol. 106 • May 1979 • No. 9
