04-12-2010, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2010, 01:38 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Linda Minor noted on her blog that the Pentagon Papers had 1st amendment protection (free speech) even if it was classified information.
That noted and that being established law, since then a few things [ahem!] have happened - not the least of which is the unPatriot Act and its co-acts which actually made democracy, freedoms and liberties illegal for the Plebs. It would be a real struggle...but one I'd like to see fought....then we will have a thumbs up or thumbs down on the future of Amerika....or if it ended in 2001. Sadly, if someone is declared a terrorist or enemy combatant, there need be no trial and they never have to have a lawyer or be set free...even torture is OK....some country we have become. I can't see what the *uck we are defending - other than the privilege and power of the privileged and powerful.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass