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Confusion Over Liberty

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From: New York Beacon, The
Date: 20011003
Author:Hornberger, Jacob G.

Hornberger, Jacob G.
New York Beacon, The
10-03-2001
CONFUSION OVER LIBERTY

The great German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once observed, "No one
is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free."

Goethe's words might sum up the plight of the American people, a plight
that was recently reflected in a secret report that emerged from the U.S.
embassy in Guatemala, which is headed by U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell.

The report, which was exposed and criticized in a Wall Street Journal
op-ed, entitled "A Guatemalan Free-Market Reformer Is Under Fire" by Mary
O'Grady (Aug. 3 WS), ...

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