“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
June 07, 2009 – 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.
June 10th, 2009 – He has a number of names. He has a number of life stories. He has a number of autobiographies. He has had a number of fathers. He attended a number of schools. He lived in a number of countries. He has a number of half siblings. He claims a number of religious traditions.
One would think therefore that we would know quite a lot about the fellow. One would be wrong. He is truly The Man Without A Past, a man invisible behind his carefully constructed public veneer.
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” – Edmund Burke
June 10, 2009 – Golden Boy U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is having a hissy fit over a book, Triple Cross, How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, a 2006 by Peter Lance. Lance had the temerity (and documentation) to question the fiction of Fitzie’s infallibility. Fitzgerald calls the book a “deliberate lie masquerading as truth.”
Bullfeathers!
