this is really frightening.
i had written out a comment regarding a WSJ story on the IRS idiotic proposal to tax cellphones. But I decided not to post for this very reason. I guess it was a good call on my part. But rather frightening that we check our 1st amendment rights at the door of the IRS Building.
I think we check them online now too you read that story right?
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/47141327.html?numComments=77
THOMAS MITCHELL: Subpoena seeks names — and lots more — of Web posters
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“Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. To justify suppression of free speech, there must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced.”
— Justice Louis Brandeis
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Free speech should be practiced only by those who are ready to deal with the consequences, which just might include a knock on the door by a friendly federal investigator wanting to know if you posted an anonymous comment on a Web site. Were you advocating violence or confessing to breaking the federal tax laws?
This is not a hypothetical