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I am a black tea party patriot faced with a serious problem concerning my 83-year-old father. Dad is an extraordinary man whose life epitomizes the greatness of America. In the '50s, married with a wife and three kids and employed as a laborer, Dad was among the first blacks to break the color barrier into the Baltimore Fire Dept. The white firefighters treated Dad like scum and boldly displayed their displeasure with having an "n" in their firehouse. Dad was the young associate pastor of a storefront church. He treated his "haters" with love and strove to be the best...

PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A WEAPON by Murray N. Rothbard (This article was a keynote address given by the late economist Murray N. Rothbard at a special conference sponsored by The Institute for Humanistic Studies, State University of New York at Albany, M.E. Grenander, Director, April 17-19, 1980. The conference was entitled _Asclepius At Syracuse: Thomas Szasz, Libertarian Humanist_. Rothbard's comments are excerpted from pp. 333-350 of the conference proceedings.) Thomas Szasz is justly honored for his gallant and courageous battle against the compulsory commitment of the innocent in the name of "therapy" and humanitarianism. But I would like to focus tonight...