CLARK VS. CLARK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100830016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 21, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
NEWS
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DEC. Z 1966
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Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Penn., youth is conditioned to respond'to a.
says' he is concerned, about the:, liberal program of orderly policing,
threat to American freedoms posed .. of society by government,, subject to,
by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- the popular will, in the Interest of
tion and the Central Intelligence social justice :.."
Agency. "They plan well in Russia. There
Clark says the nation is beset by someone decides where little !van,
`a "military-industrial complex," FBI ' is going to work. If, at the age of
"blackmail" of those who criticize . eleven, he seems unresponsive, he.
jdirector J. Edgar Hoover, and CIA's goes back to the collective farm...
position of power which is pretty Clark disparages America's sys-
close to the danger line. tern of balanced government limiting
Clark believesi,.jhese'things men- .
ace "the privacy, of the individual dower; saying "this original concep,
citizen" e and constitute 'major lion, favoring inaction," made sense'
threats to the successful survival of in the days of George III, but adding:
"Does it still do so? I think not."
American democracy. The Pennsylvania senator wants'
It is interesting to hear Sen. Clark, America The to have a 11
one of the U.S. Senate's ultra-Liberal planned econo-
members and a spokesman for the ..my," ? controlled by Washington, in''
radical Americans for .Democratic ..,which' government decides where.
Aotion, speaking out sgairist threats. people will work. He recalls nos-
''to individual privacy through con- talgically that during World War
centrations of II, military authorities "determined.
power. We wonder, where one `served the cause of free-
however, just how good Sen. Clark's
;credentials are on this-subject
For the truth of the matter is that:. Clark wants something of the
., Sen. Clark is a zealous advocate of same sort 'now, emulating the good
`dismantling the American constitu ;,"planning" of the Russians through'
'tionai system, of heaping up gover-r '. "persuasion" instead of compulsion.
~' ment power -in unlimited quantities, . "How can we use both the carrot:
and of -"policing the American citi- and the stick," he asks, to get young;
zenry. Among Clark's various state- people "trained" and on their way
ments on these subj4cts are the ~ to where they are needed?" That,
,'following: "stick" combined with that "polic-
"A liberal is here defined as one ',ing" sounds a little ominous.
who believes in using the full force, Thus Sen. Joe Clark, guardian of
,of government for the advancement ? our liberties. For our part, we think
idf social, pol kes'1 and economic. the libertarian counsel of someone;
?justice at the.. municipal, state na-` who doesn't .think "they 'plan well
.tional,"and international levels in Russia" might be a little more'
ti Spiritually and .economically believable
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