European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns Carl Rowan executing children for the crimes of their parents much has been written and said about the number of Homes the number of people left almost by fires caused when Philadelphia police foolishly dropped a bomb on the Row House Strong hold of a Radical group called but not enough has been written or said about the children who were incinerated in that filthy when a group is As grotesquely obnoxious As the tendency is to hate everything associated with from babies to the helplessly that is Why there is so Little outrage Over the fact that those Chil Dren in Philadelphia were executed for the crimes of their deranged it is important to discuss this because this tragic episode ends there Are More move enclaves in across the nation there Are other Cults and bands of political freaks who Are trying to maintain pockets of anarchy in the midst of reasonably civilized neighbourhoods and Socie the Philadelphia tragedy must teach us How better to Deal with such the first Point that we must accept is that the children in that move House were hostages just As surely As if they were in the chains of Ayatollah they were pawns manipulated by the insane adults around the first Rule in every decent society is in a hostage you try not to sacrifice the lives of the hostages in your Zeal for doing in the so we must never agree with Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goode that bombing that House was the right decision part of a plan that was except for the even if the neighbourhood had not been burned and Only the move people Chil Dren included had been it would have been an outrageous but what to do when pockets of lawlessness exist that no no unit of government can tolerate we had a recent example in april of what to do when up to 200 agents from the the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and and state Law enforce ment bodies put under siege the Mountain Camp of a Radical group called the the sword and the Arm of the there was talk of the agents even using Star wars weapons on the heavily armed but because of the presence of Many women and children in that the agents just waited out those they sought to App re after four leaders of the covenant sur rendered without a when officials saw the thousands of rounds of Armuni the bomb the other weapons and explosives in this year old they surely realized that an attack on the Camp would have produced a grave in officials acted As though they were in a bragging rights football with time running and someone had to score winning Points before the clock sex George will the Media Ata ogs blows the City should have ordered a cutoff of electric Gas to the move it should have staked it out so As to prevent anyone from taking food and to arrest anyone who came arrest on what you having read that City officials delayed moving against this bizarre group because they Haven violated any if what went on in that House was not sickening child we might just As Well Stop talking about the abuse of move has for years been a disturber of the a violator of health and sanitation a perpetrator of threats and violence against its a nose Humber at gun control and How does move build a rooftop Bunker without appropriate building permits when the average citizen cant put another sink in the bathroom without running a Gauntlet of inspectors when a group of crazies is permitted to abuse Chil intimidate neighbourhoods and defy dozens of Legal and social that group naturally begins to think that it is governments that move late against them Are doomed to violent confrontation and Likely to find the Laws must be one by time after against the other move and similar where violations members must be a one and then wherever they show their children held in physically abusive and criminal environments must be taken none of this is authorities will have to justify in Legal and constitutional terms the Steps they but it will spare us other episodes in which Urban police departments in their anger and that it is of to drop whatever the peril to innocent children and to the neighbors of those who Are considered press Syndicate friends of property rights should thank the nation the nation Magazine is of Stern left Wing and is brimful of disdain for the profit motives of capitalist Civili its editors no doubt feel deep pain because they must this sad world enforces moral Compromise put a Price on their product rather than give it away at to each according to but being an uncompromising critic of Bourgeois the nation never bends its knee to the totem of private so it was with the pleasure that comes when ideological and commercial considerations that the nation expropriated Gerald Fords for profit of for terribly High the result was litigation and now a supreme court ruling More entertaining than but entertaining because it illustrates the american lefts Knack for mashing its thumb with its own in 1979 time Magazine was poised to publish a extract from Fords forthcoming time had already paid and was to pay another upon but shortly be fore times publication an Undis closed source provided the nation with a manuscript of the the nation rushed into print a word article based and quoting 300 words the portion of the memoirs time had especially dealing with Fords Par Don of the scoop having been time cancelled publication plans and the Sec Ond Harper Fords pub Lisher and Holder of the sued the nation for copyright a District court held for Harper but an appeals court it held that authors can copyright their expression but not facts and least of All politically significant facts and ideas such As those the nation reported As the appeals court said copyright Law should not impede the Harvest of knowledge or kill the activities of the the supreme divided has reversed the appeals courts holding that to treat As acceptable what the nation did would defeat the intent of copyright that intent is to promote knowledge by guaranteeing a fair return to those who augment the interest of Book publishers and authors have Here prevailed Over the interests of those who publish the nations cloaking his professional and commercial interests in the cloth of and dressing up his defeat As a blow to the Public says the courts decision allows Public officials to withhold Public the for private and this undermines the Public right to note How in the hands of an editor with magazines to the first Amend ment in the name of an instrument of according to the nations the first amendment licenses him to determine that a person at least a Public person must and writing for the courts jus Tice Sandra Day Oconnor notes that the fundamental purpose of the first Amend ment is to prevent improper restrictions on voluntary Public expression of it protects the individuals right to speak when others want him to be but there is a concomitant Freedom to refrain from expressing oneself until one wants to do the nation denied that Freedom to at a financial Cost to Justice William joined by justices Byron White and Thurgood mar arguing that the courts construction of copyright Law will stifle the Broad dissemination of ideas and in formation that copyright is intended to the nations not to be outdone in wringing apocalyptic portent from his Little says the ruling is basically a denial to the Public of the most important information about their government unless and until it is sold to them by a former Public the decision was of narrow in on the nations use of verbatim which were not essential to the nations reporting of but the decision constitutes a mod est enhancement of a property right and a corresponding modest restriction on the right of news organizations to publish newsworthy material As quickly As they get friends of property rights should Send thank you notes to the for nearly two life has been like that for the american the lefts principal accomplishment is the ascend political and of the which grew in reaction to the excesses of the Post writers group