LIBERTARIAN PARTY Libertarian Party Defenders of Liberty NEWS P.O. Box 64832 -

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| LIBERTARIAN PARTY                                     Libertarian Party |
| Defenders of Liberty           NEWS                      P.O. Box 64832 |
|                                ----                    Dallas, TX 75206 |
|                                                      metro 214-558-1776 |
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For immediate release.                           FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Wednesday 21 April 1993                Karen Tegtmeyer, Secretary, Texas LP
                                                               214-827-5476
 
 
             LIBERTARIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO PROTEST B.A.T.F.
                    NEAR WACO AT NOON THIS SATURDAY
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Members of several libertarian-oriented organizations will hold a protest
at the intersection of Loop 340 and FM-2491 near Waco at noon Saturday,
April 24.  The protest is intended to call the public's attention to the
unconstitutional use of force by the B.A.T.F. in its raid on the nearby
church compound.
 
Similar protests took place in downtown Dallas on Thursday, March 4, and
at the Convention Center in Waco on March 7, 13, and 20, and April 3.
Participating groups will include Amnesty International, Citizens for Legal 
Reform, the Fully Informed Jury Association, the Golden Mean Team, the 
Libertarian Party, and the North Texas Arms Rights Coalition.
 
     "There is something strange in the history of toleration.  Almost all 
men have learned the lesson of toleration with respect to past heresies and 
divisions.  We wonder how men ever grew so hard and cruel about differences 
of opinion and faith.  We are perplexed when we read how the heretic was 
regarded as a man with a plague which would surely spread unless he, the 
heretic, was extirpated.  We reason with philosophic wisdom about the 
impossibility of conquering mind by brute force, of changing ideas by means 
of the truncheon or the nightstick.  We recall that such attempts at direct 
suppression of thought have usually ended by increasing the vitality of 
obnoxious beliefs; we quote the saying that the blood of the martyrs is the 
seed of the church.  We are surprised that leaders had not enough common 
sense to allow unpopular ideas to burn themselves out or die of inanition.  
But when some affair of our own day demands cohesive action and stirs deep 
feeling, we at once dignify the unpopular cause with persecution; we feed 
its flame with our excited suspicions; we make it the center of a facti-
tious attention, and lend it importance by the conspicuousness of our 
efforts at suppression."
 
                                        John Dewey, CONSCRIPTION OF THOUGHT
 
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