Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!xanth!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Reich again Message-ID: <618776588@bucc2.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 07:42:27 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 14 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Pete HartmanI believe we've had the violent arguments over Riech already. I'll grant this: he was not a good scientist in the normal sense. Perhaps he even "deserved" going to jail for selling worthless cures. HE DID NOT DESERVE HAVING HIS BOOKS BURNED. That is the only reason I defend him at all--it is outrageous that this country, based on "free speech" got away with burning his notebooks indiscriminately and without a peep of protest from anyone but his "fanatical followers". And good old Marty Gardner. I used to respect the man. But he has been Enlightened About The Truth, and so book burning is glossed over; apparently free speech isn't necessary if you're a nut.