I consider you a friend, Gene. But, I resent being, by implication, considered a supporter of slabbing because I won't sign up to some "list". I resent the public pressure of comments like "H ere is the list of anti-slabbers. Anybody you know not on it? Why do you suppose they're not?"

My reading of history says the Brownshirts accomplished their ends through physical terror and destruction of property. McCarthy used implication and publis opinion (while he had it) to accomplish his ends. Not the same!

All I'm saying is that this thing is becoming less voluntay and more coercive than it should and that it can quickly become a corrosive entity in our organization ifn it continues being coercive. After all, you cannot coerce a volunteer -- they just quit.h