[livius]

Questions become bigger threats than foreign missiles. Words are regarded as weapons legally possessed only by those in power. For all else, they are rendered contraband.

This is especially depressing when you realize that we have a whole Constitution dedicated to preventing just this situation from arising.

[Cboldt]

-- ... we have a whole Constitution dedicated to preventing just this situation from arising --

It is a bit shocking to realize that those "controlling" words on paper don't mean what you think they do. And the entity that decides what the words mean is the same entity that controls you at threat of gunpoint.