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Civil Rights

May 8, 2001

Enemy of the PC

What's it all about, Voltaire? Whose scared cow is being gored now? What are we going to do about the scourge of the politically correct police, busily protecting us from ourselves?

        By Tony Capozzola

        Dear Voltaire:
        You are credited with the famous and admirable phrase, "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Everyone in law and politics, from Charlton Heston to Jesse Jackson, is quoting you these days. But I thought you should know that if you wer...

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