To: neverdem
Wilson wanted even more. “Authority to exercise censorship over the press,” he wrote a senator, “is absolutely necessary.” He got that authority in May 1918 when Congress passed the Sedition Act, criminalizing, among other things, “abusive language” about the government. In time, governments become more concerned with their own preservation than the lives of the citizens they were originally intended to protect.
3 posted on
05/28/2013 6:34:02 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
To: Flick Lives
In time, governments become more concerned with their own preservation than the lives of the citizens they were originally intended to protect.
BINGO! We have a winner. For the best description of how that happens read a book called The Political Illusion by Jacques Ellul.
9 posted on
05/28/2013 7:58:12 PM PDT by
newheart
(The worst thing the Left ever did was to convince the world it was not a religion.)
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