Thursday, May 2, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Superpatriots Threaten-
(Continued from page 2) ample of the woman who wanted to remove Robin Hood from the library because the man in green and his merry men were communistic because they stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
The foremost governmental agency which endangers the freedoms of speech and the press is the House Un-American Activities Committee. The clandestine, but well-known, part the committee played in the production "Operation Abolition" is only one of its many questionable activities.
THE WORTHY matrons of the blue-nosed DAR also took out after liberal Senators Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and George Norris of Nebraska as well as anti-Ku Klux Klan editor William Allen White.
But the committee does its greatest harm to our freedoms during its widely publicized, staged hearings. It calls witnesses who will give the answer it wants to hear -- the Fifth Amendment.
THE COMMITTEE'S hearings closely resemble a trial except that the witness does not enjoy any of the privileges accorded to a defendant. The witness does not know his accusers, cannot cross-examine and does not have the right to introduce evidence in his favor.
If these freedoms are subverted, all freedoms are dead. And the next step is enslavement. These liberties are essential. They must be kept alive. Dissent is the life blood of the democratic system. Take away the blood, and the system dies. Let
The committee has not fulfilled its stated purpose of discovering areas where legislation is needed. The committee has not proposed any meaningful legislation in its 25-year plus history.
a person speak, his ideas be discussed, and the system will flourish and grow.
A VERY interesting and intriguing illustration of this enslavement is a painting of Jose Clemente Orozco entitled "The Slave." It shows no human feature, not the hands or the mouth or the eyes or any of the other elements usually thought of as most expressive. Only the head is shown. It is hooded, chained, and fastened with a great lock. And whether the hands are manacled and the ankles fettered does not matter. The bondage is complete, for shackling the mind is the ultimate in enslavement.
BALDWIN ART THEATER Luis Bunuel's
VIRIDIANA
(Spanish)
Winner of the 1961 Grand Prix at Cannes
PLUS Francois Truffaut's (French)
THE MISCHIEF MAKERS
By the Director of
by the Director of "400 Blows" and "Jules and Jim"
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