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For Many Years, I Did My Best To Report On The Issues Of The Day In As Objective A Manner As Possible. When I Had My Own Strong Opinions, As I Often Did, I Tried Not To Communicate Them To My Audience.

For How Many Thousands Of Years Now Have We Humans Been What We Insist On Calling "civilized?" And Yet, In Total Contradiction, We Also Persist In The Savage Belief That We Must Occasionally, At Least, Settle Our Arguments By Killing One Another.

Attorney General John Ashcroft Has Earned Himself A Remarkable Distinction As The Torquemada Of American Law. Tomás De Torquemada...was Largely Responsible For...[the] Torture And The Burning Of Heretics — Muslims In Particular. Now, Of Course, I Am Not Accusing The Attorney General Of Pulling Out Anyone's Fingernails Or Burning People At The Stake (at Least I Don't Know Of Any Such Cases). But One Does Get The Sense These Days That The Old Spaniard's Spirit Is Comfortably At Home In Ashcroft's Department Of Justice.

I Am Neither Republican Nor Democrat. I Am A Registered Independent Because I Find That I Cast My Votes Not On The Basis Of Party Loyalty But On The Issues Of The Moment And My Assessment Of The Candidates.

It Seems To Rise Again When The Crisis Times Come, And This Is A Time Of Most Severe Crisis, As We All Know, Not Just For The History Of The United States And The Survival Indeed Of Our Democracy, But For The Future Peace Of The World. And Never Before Probably Has The Need For Interfaith Commitment Been Nearly As Great As It Is At This Very Moment.