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Dear Editor Civil Liberties By publishing Leo Sauvage's article "America's Nazis and their Defenders" (NL, August 14), The New Leader achieves a certain distinction: the silliest contribution to...
...Is it really silly to think that if the principle admits exceptions, prohibiting glorification of genocide should be the first one...
...Since Jarvis-Gann blocked the way to an increase in state taxes, though, it is very unlikely that this source of compensation will be available in the future...
...Shapiro himself calls the "Nean-derthalers...
...America is not, by comparison with other industrialized nations, an overtaxed country...
...It would have been at least as easy, however, to spell out the effects of Proposition 13 for the working mothers who relied on child-care centers that had to be closed, for the welfare recipients whose cost of living allowances are to be curtailed, for the disadvantaged children whose schools can no longer provide the special facilities to compensate for their cultural handicaps...
...When men like Irving Kristol and Robert Nisbet, who in the past had such strong liberal credentials, join the propaganda against the "do-gooders" and seriously maintain—as Nisbet put it ("Dear Editor," NL, August 14)—that the major problem of our age is to protect "individual freedom . . . from a leviathan, already to be seen in American government," then it is clear how far the panicky opposition to government and to social reform has gone, and that it is time to sound the alarm...
...To score his points, Sauvage resorts to the time-dishonored tactic of reproducing every "Uh...
...New York City Charli-sCoui-n Consultant, American federation of Teachers Proposition 13 Arthur M. Shapiro ("Dear Editor," NL, August 14) blames me for merely stating the unfairness of the California property tax in my article, "California's Losing Proposition" (NL, July 17), instead of spelling it out...
...Marion Muller's art column on the "Triumph of the Past" was particularly trenchant...
...and the latest polls indicate Carter would trounce Brown resoundingly...
...What worries me most are the nationwide tendencies that gave birth to Proposition 13, the use of some objectionable features of the tax system and other policy mistakes to further the purposes of those Mr...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...Employing Sauvage's logic, either you call anyone in jail for indecent exposure a political prisoner or you fail the test of consistent defense of freedom of speech...
...But her critique of contemporary art was what the sick art patron was waiting for—it was honest, intelligent and forthright...
...Dear Editor Civil Liberties By publishing Leo Sauvage's article "America's Nazis and their Defenders" (NL, August 14), The New Leader achieves a certain distinction: the silliest contribution to the debate over Skokie...
...as a retired homeowner-professor on a very The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...ew )ork iitv Sums I psii is...
...Why doesn't Mr...
...That would have been easy for me to do...
...modest pension, I have felt the unfairness directly...
...Carl Landauer Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California Brown It is possible that in his review of the recent books on Jerry Brown "Three Who Missed Their Man," NL, July 31), Steve Lager fold takes the California governor's chances for the Presidency too seriously...
...There is no denying, of course, that Brown whopped Carter in the primaries they both entered...
...In any case, what Californians did or did not do in the campaign is now unimportant, and even what will happen in this state—although it touches me, a Califor-nian, quite strongly—is not the most significant aspect of the matter...
...Uh," when he wants to demonstrate that the person he is interviewing is on the defensive...
...But this could be attributed more to the fact thai those anti-political tendencies Jimmy Carter seemed to embody, Jerry Brown embodied twice as well...
...Goldberger in Chicago, and that remains quite clear in its published version...
...Kudos The New Leader of August 14 rates as one of the most significant in a long line of significant issues...
...To tell the American middle class that the "liberal establishment" has tried to impose on it "an infinite amount of soaking" is to advocate, if not "the demolition of government," at least the demolition of the welfare policies that have been developed since the New Deal...
...More important, however, is the fact that Mr...
...Neier deal with the question of a precisely drawn law that no government official at any level could use "to choose who may speak and who should be silenced," yet that would make it a crime to advocate or glorify racially or ethnically motivated killings...
...Now ihe charm of antipolitics has apparently worn off...
...And then, triumphantly, he tells us how he forced "extreme civil libertarians" to admit that they don't see defense of public nudity to be the same issue as denying the government power to choose who may speak and who should be silenced...
...Justified grievances must be remedied, but it is a forlorn hope to assume that the antiwel-fare drive can thereby be stopped...
...New York City Aryeh Neier Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union Leo Sauvage replies: Whether time-honored or time-dishonored, I believe it was proper and pertinent journalism to notice that while neither Aryeh Neier nor David Gold-berger (legal director of the Chicago ACLU) showed the slightest hesitation or embarrassment in defending the right of racists to parade swastikas in Skokie or KKK hoods in Harlem, they both suddenly appeared less sure of themselves, and of the Constitutional sacredness of the principle they invoked, when confronted with nudism instead of racism...
...I want to defend neither the failure of the California Legislature to reform the property tax in years past nor the slogans used to combat Jarvis-Gann...
...Neier persists in ignoring the real point I raised with him in New York as well as with Mr...
...Would Mr...
...It may help save us from the phoniness of most modern art...
...Shapiro accept responsibility for the propaganda used by its supporters...
...Indeed, Muller's calling our attention to the richness of Ice Age art would have been enough in itself...
...Such problems are not yet as serious as they will become within the next few years, because the state had a surplus it used to replace part of the local revenue taken away by Proposition 13...
Vol. 61 • September 1978 • No. 19
