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Dangerous Speech: Would the Founders Be Considered Domestic Extremists Today?

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“If you can’t say ‘F***’ you can’t say, ‘F*** the government.’” ― Lenny Bruce Not only has free speech become a four-letter word—profane, obscene, uncouth, not to be uttered in so-called public places—but in more and more cases, the government deems free speech to be downright dangerous and in some instances illegal. The U.S. government has become particularly intolerant of speech that challenges the government’s power, reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices. Indeed, there is a long and growing list of the kinds of speech that the government considers dangerous enough to red flag and subject to censorship, surveillance, investigation and prosecution: hate speech, bullying speech, intolerant speech, conspiratorial speech, treasonous speech, threatening speech, incendiary speech, inflammatory speech, radical speech, anti-government speech, right-wing speech, extremist speech, etc. Yet by allowing the government to whittle away at cherished First Amendment freedoms—which form the backbone of the Bill of ...

Would the Pentagon and CIA Permit Sanders to Be President? Part 2

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Last December, I asked a very simple question: Would the U.S. national-security state permit self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders to serve as president and, if so, would they permit him to finish out his term? Now that it looks like Sanders is going to give Hillary Clinton a run for her money, the question becomes even more relevant. Let’s face it: There isn’t any difference between the socialist economic philosophy of Bernie Sanders and that of Chilean president Salvador Allende. They might have disagreed on particular programs or on the priority of projects, but they would definitely be on the same page with respect to the overall principles of socialism and socialist philosophy. Yet, Allende’s socialism was one of the principal reasons the U.S. national-security state removed him from office and replaced him with conservative dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. U.S. officials considered Allende’s socialist policies to be a threat to U.S. national security. Moreover, the fact that Allende had been democratically elected ...

Television, Football and Politics: Gaming Spectacles Designed to Keep the Police State in Power

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Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility. — Professor Neil Postman If there are two spectacles that are almost guaranteed to render Americans passive viewers, incapable of doing little more than cheering on their respective teams, it’s football and politics—specifically, the Super Bowl and the quadrennial presidential election. Both football and politics encourage zealous devotion among their followers, both create manufactured divisions that alienate one group of devotees from another, and both result in a strange sort of tunnel vision that leaves the viewer oblivious to anything ...

The State of the Union Speech Obama Should Have Given

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My fellow Americans, the current state of the United States is a disaster. The federal government continues with its out-of-control spending binge, on both the welfare state and the warfare state. The federal government is going deeper and deeper into debt, much as Greece and Puerto Rico did before going broke. An ever-growing number of Americans have become hopelessly dependent on Social ...