Democracy has always been a rare and fragile institution in human history. . . . As social conflict tends to become more severe in this country . . . there will inevitably be a tendency on the part of the authoritarian element-always present in our history-to suppress individual freedoms, to utilize the refined techniques of police surveillance {not excluding torture of course} in order to preserve-not wilderness!-but the status quo, the privileged positions of those who so largely control the economic and governmental institutions of the United States.
( David Gessner )
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