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Sparta, an ancient Greek city-state, trained all its young men for war. One “test” was each youth was to sneak into the countryside and murder someone’s slave and not get caught. The murder was against the laws of the society, but if the young man was caught he was punished severely, not for murder or attempted murder, but for getting caught.
The memo proposed having a good novelist write a fictional novel with Nixon as the main character. The great Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck was approached for the project. See {629628} for his reaction.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was acrually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was postumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
Many of the other members of the National Assembly criticized him for “washing the Assembly’s laundry” in public. They argued that the people would lose confidence in the National Assembly. The National Assembly at the time was the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch all at the same time. See {639833} for an example of the public statements he made. “Dissemble” means to lie or shade the truth with the intent of deceiving.
