Free Speech May Not Be Dead......
...but it sure doesn't look healthy.
Um....in case everyone in government has forgotten, the relevant text is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
As Thomas Jefferson said to David Humphreys in 1789: "There are rights which it is useless to surrender to the government and which governments have yet always been found to invade. These are the rights of thinking and publishing our thoughts by speaking or writing; the right of free commerce; the right of personal freedom."
It doesn't pay to ignore the counsel of Thomas Jefferson, who also noted this: "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
Naughty, naughty, G-Men.
Um....in case everyone in government has forgotten, the relevant text is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
As Thomas Jefferson said to David Humphreys in 1789: "There are rights which it is useless to surrender to the government and which governments have yet always been found to invade. These are the rights of thinking and publishing our thoughts by speaking or writing; the right of free commerce; the right of personal freedom."
It doesn't pay to ignore the counsel of Thomas Jefferson, who also noted this: "Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
Naughty, naughty, G-Men.
posted by The Malcontent at 2:52 PM
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