Red Army Chorus
As an opening-night ticket holder to the Red Army Chorus performance at the Shrine Auditorium, I would like to offer a comment.
To our new Armenian neighbors, welcome to our democratic experiment. I am pleased that you are enjoying the freedoms of speech and peaceable assembly that our society provides. No doubt you have chosen to join with us because of a heightened appreciation of these special freedoms. But the blockage of the Shrine Auditorium on opening night did nothing to enhance these liberties (Metro, Nov. 4).
In fact this act was a frontal attack on both these basic rights, more in the spirit of totalitarianism than of democracy. These freedoms, my friends, are for all of us, equally for you and for me. This is part of our special heritage as Americans.
BRUCE REIFEL
Los Angeles
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