‘Plus ca change? I knocked the Secret Service for tracking demonstrators in 1970
Posted on March 25th, 2022 by Jim Sleeper
I was a bit more than a year out of college and turning 23 years old when I reacted publicly as follows to the U.S. Secret Service’s identifying and tracking protesters against the Vietnam War and other government policies. A decent liberal education and a viable civic-republican culture helped me and others to do it.
Click this link and enlarge its illuminated section (“Letters to the Editor”) to read the first letter, “Secret Service Files.” TimesMachine: July 3, 1970 – NYTimes.com Please share it around, now more than ever.