Twenty Years Ago
"A new form of activism is shaking the political establishment…By using broadcast faxes, satellite television programs, radio talk shows, and electronic forums like those on CompuServe and the Internet, grassroots activists like the Hartmans can bypass traditional media outlets. The rather anarchic nature of computer culture suggests that the infomedia revolution will tend to erode the statist foundations of the political establishment."
-Rick Henderson, "Cyberdemocracy"
"So far, no American politician has been willing to say that if stopping illegal immigration requires repealing the 13th Amendment, then by God that's what we need to do. But just about anything else goes. National ID cards, computerized federal databases, doctors arresting their patients on the operating table, requiring teachers to rat on their students and encouraging the students to rat on their parents, pitching newborn babies back across the border: The Cold War had nothing on this new battle against immigration."
-Glenn Garvin, "No Fruits, No Shirts, No Service"
-April 1995
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Twenty Years Ago."
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