"Is there a distinction?" Craig shot back, thoroughly angry.
"Do you wish to be held in contempt of this committee?" asked the first man, leaning forward half out of his chair.
"Of course not."
"Then you will confine your responses to simple yes and no answers, if you please, Mr. Craig."
Craig glared at the men in impotent rage. His head was beginning to ache. He had been many hours without paraoxylnebutal.
"Now, Mr. Craig," the first man began in an overly mild tone, "we shall begin again. Please try to restrain your show of emotion. You are here in petition of an identity card of provisional Code II type. You maintain that you have never been on Terra before. Indeed, you state that you have never had a political affiliation."
"Yes."
"What are your reactions to the latest acts of the Liberty party?" a third man abruptly asked.
"I have none," Craig answered, after an instant of confusion.
"You do not condemn the Liberty party?"