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FREEDOMWAYS                 SECOND QUARTER 1973

state apparatus, in the name of "national security." The most lawless administration to sit in Washington in the Twentieth Century has been elected to office under the slogan of law-and-order. Most of the world's peoples will view that as an ascendant fascism. Before Watergate, "four more years" was all that was needed because this process of fascization has been systematically developed over a considerably longer period of time, beginning with the Truman Administration and the era of McCarthyism.

There is not a single fact being made public today in connection with the Watergate break-in that couldn't have come to light in the weeks before the last Presidential election and this may have made a difference in the outcome of that election. However, the White American Majority voters didn't really want to hear about Watergate or any other scandal at that time because they didn't want anything to interfere with their determined effort to uphold law-and-order; or defeat those "welfare chiselers," that is; women and children receiving public assistance. Nor did they want to take the chance of being diverted from their Holy Crusade against the busing of school children. Furthermore, they viewed the Democratic Party Presidential candidate in that election as being "too radical" or "extremist," terms which are the new code words for Communist or "subversive." It is perhaps ironical that that is the same mentality which the Watergate burglars operated out of.

The net result of their haste to uphold the American Way of Life is that they elected a bunch of crooks to another four-year term. The top one of these had a well-known and fairly consistent record of Watergate-type political activity ever since his first election campaign, when he ran successfully for the Congress from California in 1946.

As the list of those implicated grows almost daily, the Watergate investigations offer a rather unique oportunity for the man nationalities among the U.S. population to gain some critical insights into the function of government. This would be Watergate's lasting contribution to the struggle for advanced democracy in our country.

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