[Travis McGee]

Plenty of blame to go around. Gutless wonders the lot of them.

[backhoe]

Plenty of blame to go around. Gutless wonders the lot of them...

Absolutely correct. For what little it is worth, I was the originator of this, way back a year or more:

Silence, America!:

Silence, America!: for Silence, America!. 

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...tried to warn people; not enough were paying attention.

Now we'll all pay...

[Noumenon]

Plenty of blame to go around, indeed. The belwhether for me was the legislation of 'hate crime' and 'hate speech' laws. This is just another nail in the Constitution's coffin, as far as I'm concerned.

Think about it - should we fear a government that has declared that we can be prosecuted and jailed - or worse - for what we might have been thinking?

As bad as this is, though, the trigger point will be the application of all of these laws and more to the Internet. It's the last great frontier of free minds and free speech. When the 'net goes down, it'll be time to take to the field.