"I now saw the liberal attitude of this press in a different light; the lofty
tone in which it answered attacks and its method of killing them with silence
now revealed itself to me as a trick as clever as it was treacherous;
gentle pinpricks against [Our President] revealed its methods by their persistency,
and so did its commendation of French culture and civilization."
2007-09-11
21:31:56
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"Was it not the worst poison that can even be imagined? Wasn't the worst kind of pacifism injected into the heart of our people at a time when the rest of the world was preparing to throttle [our nation], slowly but surely? Even in peacetime didn't the press inspire the minds of the people with doubt in the right of their own state, thus from the outset limiting them in the choice of means for its defense? "
2007-09-11
21:59:20 ·
update #1
checkers, you win "first". EMP...as far as libertarians go, they're what "left" used to be, before marx and engels. Unfortunately, I don't see any effective regulation in place as you describe, because the right of habeus corpus was eliminated during this administration, and the right to free speech/public assembly was put in cages.
The duty of all citizens is to distrust your government. Be suspicious of it, criticize it's flaws.
2007-09-12
04:45:41 ·
update #2