Choosing your beliefs, your thoughts, your job, your officials, your laws, your taxes — being equal citizens before a law that was the same for all — they never took these freedoms for granted.
ootb, you are going through an insanity surge. The amendment rests on the notion that the truth will win out in what Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas called “the marketplace of ideas.” This “marketplace” model has a long history going back to 17th-century English intellectual John Milton, but in all that time, no one ever quite explained how good ideas drive out bad ones, how truth triumphs over falsehood. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. Did Repub congresses try to stop Bush? “The whole commerce between master and slave,” wrote Jefferson, “is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.” I needn’t detail the crushing toil, the sadistic punishments, the sexual exploitation, the break-up of families, the enforced ignorance, and the regulation of every aspect of life comprehended in Jefferson’s decorous statement of the inhumanity of which human nature is capable. In America today, we have a government of fear. This comment has been flagged by the community. What will you do when the mob shows up at your front door? - Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. DOJ And Florida Officials Announce Arrests Relating To Twitter Hack, Smart Locks Could Make Heartless COVID Evictions More Efficient, BrewDog's 'Elvis Juice' Now An Approved Trademark In The UK, But Not the EU, Judge Rejected Ban On TikTok Because Trump's DOJ Can't Show Any Real National Security Threat, Facebook Sued For Not Preventing A Bunch A White Guys With Guns From Traveling To A Protest To Shoot People, Daily Deal: RAVPower Fast Wireless Charger, Court Says Trump's Plan To Block TikTok Can't Go Into Effect Yet, Cord Cutting Has Utterly Exploded During the Covid Crisis, Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt. Hence a decree commanding obedience, promising safety and threatening punishment.
SLIDESHOW: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. The ultimate safeguard against such usurpation is the vitality of America’s culture of liberty. Write to us. Filed Under: fisa, fisa amendments act, liberty, security, spying, surveillanceCompanies: washington post, [ reply to this | link to this | view in chronology ], Have a Techdirt Account? The revelations that Obama administration secretly collected phone records and accessed the internet activity of millions of Americans have raised new questions about the public’s willingness to sacrifice civil liberties in the interests of national security. Prosecutor says he has 'no information' on Minneapolis ballot-harvesting after Project Veritas sting And I'm going to amend it: If you do, you won't get neither. There is nothing beyond me and I refuse to accept that I share the universe with others. here for reprint permission. -- the U.S. ... Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, is an intelligent and thoughtful conservative who has demonstrated a career-long commitment to the rule of law. Even the democratic republic the Founders created had to be run by imperfect men, and thus even it could turn into what Richard Henry Lee called an elective despotism. The last time I checked, this was a democracy. It's amazing how what is considered left wing in the US would be considered right of centre in other Western countries. Said the man who helped setup a federal government that did exactly that, trade liberty for security. Could it just be they wish to keep it going so they continue to have stories to write about? On the Web, it’s not enough to battle falsehood with truth; the truth doesn’t always win. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation. But Fewer See Need to Sacrifice Civil Liberties. The “security of a free Constitution,” he said, depends on “teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; . Like it wouldn't spout fascist ideas of "giving up liberty"? Machiavelli offered that men obey better when they fear you than when they love you.