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at ree = 4: ct, Luink we've slowly jaja . MSE Tikely it’s because cf uh ing rate of ‘population growl the poor, the uneducated and the aide: privileged in our squalid, sprawling city; slums; because of the struggle. to reviny| our’ inclividual: idencitics: in, 1 “increas: +! ‘ingly anonymous" mass ‘socicty; because j i ’ ’ t < strictures,,,. which has sct many young a people morally ,adrift; “because: we find : ourselves burdened with more Icisure : | time than ever before, and the Devil is _ finding: work for idle -hands;.and_ maybe. partly because we have too many hws telling us what not to do—some ‘of them damned silly laws.” ve coe Own a LDOINMNEWN FOV INN EW Instead of “trying to 4 } legislate -morality-;for:adults, uwhy, don't j i “we try,.teaching it;to. children? The bet- ter, the“ more: tolerantly, ‘the more sym- * pathetically we educate. our jess crime we'll have when they grow up- i pLayBoy:”."Anothér“‘legal wtechnicality” | decried, and occasionally defied, by. law- ! enforcement officials is the Constitition- ! <al_ amendment that'safeguards the public + ‘Agirom “unreasonable ’ searches and sei-' ‘zures,” thus, prohibiting police, say. on ai gambling “or vice. raid, {rom entering. 2, children, the from searching a2, premises: without 2: : warrant. Do they have a valid complaint? : -pettt: In a word, no. I'm still. Victori-. an enough to fee) that my home is my. castle. Damn iG if I were growing mari- “jaanha in my back’ yal ; ; J. Edgar get a search warrant before I'd “tet him wipe his fect on my door mat. 2°" Once. the uninvited have the carte- *.} blanche right to prow! my home and ~" } search my person, next they'll be tres” ace | passing in my mind, as theyre already - urying to do ‘with truth serum and fic . ats detectors. Such Gestapo information pru- * cedures are*not only unnecessary but‘ unendurable in a democracy. ‘ Except perhaps to our God, we all | have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves, SD a ee wee wns nd BA tw Seek JOU be ty “oe ve Cee i (hd 1 FO WO 00 as us ws ne - ticular, for .that matter. It may not be good that we have it, but I don’t believe: the state or anyone clse has a right to pierce that facade .without the individ- ual’s consent—even though it might be _ good therapy for us to have the veil oe a { apists’ realm, not the cops’: -playsoY: How do you. _ legally defensible? BELL: Wire tapping, ‘and ‘truth serum, isn't only impolite, iu's morally, legally, innately wrong; it stinks of spying. We can't let Big Brother get zavay with it. He's already got his long i arm up to the clbow into our pocket- > books, our offices aul our daily life. | PLAYBOY: Doesn't your own firm cm- | ploy wire tapping in_ its investigative ‘tL work?, . 0 0 ee . . Ba ° . . * . * ‘ ! . ‘of our liberation from .Victorian, sexual i+.” - 7 Te, that bugging. is private residence . without’ knocking, or! rd, Vd still insist. diac; ©.“ and to our spouses—our spouses in pal: 4 drawn aside. But that’s the psychother- {eel about le- A - galized wire tapping? Is it-morally or , like’ Hie” detectors © a: @:. foappee: - coamey meee ft tsa Pspread use, which | cimakes iis coun ase unavoidable. LE Tim a layman, f can tin away, from an ugly owound, bur wor if Para surgean—anl as Ja dawyer, Dana surgeon of sorts: I have mw Ase every means at my comsnand to ‘yepresent my client, just as a surgeon has to tse every instrament oC drug at lis hia patienc. TCs simply naw so commonyplicc aw den hee eR Phe ee figve tp ft the commun to save that ne conscientious and realistic Tw: yer, however much he deplores it, he. “any choice but to usc ite CO pLraynovs Among the staunchest support: “ers of legalized! electronic surveillance ‘js the FBIZ What do you think of. its iyannted reputation for scientific crime detection? : ; ; petui: ‘Their. technical expertise is more } impressive than their: reputation. Sure, lit’s a patriotic institution, as sacrosanct. as” motherhond—but both can get a hit sickening when overportrayed, which : . ithey. are. While it spends its. time and oe lithe uaxpayers’ money chasing two-bit car i thieres and looking for Communist spics ; in Greyhound bus stations, organized crime continues to get fat off of prostitu- tion, dope, gambling, “juice” and mur- der for hire; it's the nation’s biggest business. With its resources and its pow- cer, there's no reason in God's world why the FBE couldn't have broken up the 4- syndicate long ago if, Hoover really | | wanted to. The reason he hasn’'t is sim‘; ply that syndicate bigwigs arc so good © at covering up their tracks that it’s hell-. ishly dificult to pet a conviction, and he || 3 wants to keep hs srecious FBI's gleam: | 1 ‘ 1 hadakialedl Opa ah, pi ing escutchcon unbesmirched by filure. PLAYBOY: We take it youre not Gut ‘af his greatest, admirers. ett; You might say that, If you want a good scare, get a copy .of Fred Cook's hook, The FHI Nobody Knows, and read it some dark night Jt tells the cold, hard facts about Hoover. As the FBI's revered director, he's done a great job—of mak- fug his posivion more secure than that of mast.crowned heads in this troubled world. Hluover’s dictatorial ideas: and ideology have no place in a position of such power ina democrac;. oA, PLAYBOY: What is his ideology? | wettt: The ideology of fascism, of right- jo": ism. Look at how many ¢ex-FBT men arc i members of the John Birch Society; 1 | wonder where they picked it up. Huover ia any archreactionary autocrat who dep- -recates the concept that “we the pco- ple" are fir to govern Gurselves, He's a dangerous, dangerous man whom we should have gotten rid of a long tine ago. Given full rein, he'd legalize “t - only wire lapping but searchwihe : warrant and no-knock-and-enter; § the name of law and order, he we completely abandon duc :.cocess and constitutional protection: guarantcc >. every citizen. 5 . Arcn’t you es ean ne ee ee emenmaamamnamaiate 255 | 1 : going a bit 23