From Nat Hentoff's column in this week's Voice:

In 1952, A. J. Muste--in an essay, "Of Holy Disobedience"--spoke of Georges Bernanos, the novelist, who refused to stay in France under the Nazis. One of the Bernanos passages quoted by Muste is not without contemporary relevance: "The moment, perhaps, is not far off when it will seem...natural for us to leave the front-door key in the lock at night so the police may enter, at any hour of the day or night...." (Remember the Bill Clinton-Henry Cisneros proposal last spring that people who live in public housing projects should sign an agreement allowing the police--without a warrant--to enter any time to seize drugs and perpetrators? Our wholly irrelevant attorney general, Janet Reno, did not object.)