Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:34:38 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Gaylor) From: David Theroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hello
Dear Matt, We will be holding an upcoming event with Gore Vidal, "Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done?", in San Francisco on April 18th. Here is a link to the web page on the program: http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020418ipf.html Could I interest you in please sending out a notice to your email list to alert your readers? We would be most grateful. More specifically, I am adding below details of the program. Please advise me if this might be possible and if you have any questions. Thank you. Best regards, David David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.independent.org ------------------------------------------- The Independent Institute Presents: "Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done?" http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020418ipf.html Co-sponsored with Harper's Magazine With GORE VIDAL, author and man-of-letters Author, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (Nation Books) Moderated by LEWIS LAPHAM, Editor, Harper's Magazine With a panel of distinguished scholars: BARTON J. BERNSTEIN, Professor of History, Stanford University Author, The Truman Administration: A Documentary History (HarperCollins); Editor, Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (Pantheon Books) ROBERT HIGGS, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Independent Institute; Editor, The Independent Review; Author, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (Oxford University Press) THOMAS GALE MOORE, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Author, China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era (Cambridge University Press) Could the horrific events of September 11th be setting in motion a chain of events far more significant than the terrorist attacks themselves? After retaliating against the Al Qaeda terrorist network, and its Taliban enablers, the Bush Administration now speaks of "bringing justice" to an "axis of evil" countries not involved in the 9/11 attacks--all while Osama bin Laden and most of the major terrorist leaders have escaped. Meanwhile, the Middle-East may be teetering on the brink of a major war. World leaders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and around the world view U.S. military intervention with increasing alarm, and international opinion indicates that the U.S. may be more hated than ever. Could U.S. policies be provoking this hatred and the ever more ominous threats to the safety of Americans and people around the world? If so, how can we produce a safer world? On the home front, the U.S. government has acquired broad new police powers to systematically spy on and detain both American citizens and foreign nationals without due process. With the USA PATRIOT Act--legislation still being written when it was passed by Congress last fall--will such a measure really hinder terrorists or will it simply enable militant fundamentalists to destroy American liberty as the U.S. itself shreds the Bill of Rights? Please join us for a special evening with world-renowned author Gore Vidal, moderated by Lewis Lapham, and including a distinguished panel of scholars, Barton Bernstein, Thomas Gale Moore, and Robert Higgs, to discuss why terrorism now threatens America and what should be done. April 18, 2002, 8-10 p.m. Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, California Tickets: $22 per person ($18 per person for Independent Institute Associate Members) To reserve tickets, please contact Ms. Nichelle Beardsley at 510-632-1366 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further information, please go to http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020418ipf.html. The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.independent.org ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************
