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...action over respect for democracy. But American kids wouldn’t dream of pursuing serious political objectives through violence. After all, I thought, while the Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America’s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals?? in the U.S. were protesting the Vietnam War on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and embracing free love in Golden Gate State Park...
...abounds on the jangly “Haven’t Got A Clue,” on which Coyne sings “Every time you state your case / the more I want to punch your face.” The spare but anthemic “Free Radicals?? tells of an imagined conversation with a suicide bomber. And the rollicking first single, “The W.A.N.D.,” angrily implores listeners to wrest power away from Bush by using magic wands. As always, the Lips give voice to a great deal of philosophical anxiety...
...soil, torture in Iraq, lack of fair trials for detainees at Guantánamo, and qualms with the new UN Human Rights Council are the perfect examples that extremists like to quote. Al-Qaida, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan are beneficiaries of America’s impasses. To those radicals?? dismay, our ideals of human rights, freedom, and democracy do lead to a better world. And, in memory of the terrible Latin American decade, we must apply them uniformly and categorically, not merely as rhetoric leitmotifs. Memory requires bravery but also consistency; the road to heaven does...
...large part of St. Louis’s charter can still be traced to the political situation at the outbreak of the Civil War, when its large population of anti-slavery German immigrants—the mid-19th century equivalent of today’s “dangerous radicals??—made St. Louis a significant threat to the newly seceded Confederacy.For those of you who haven’t been reading the news, the Civil War ended a few years ago. But the question of who controls the St. Louis Police Department still hinges largely...
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