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"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance." He also said free speech "cannot be limited without being lost."Former US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall added:
"Above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression (regardless of its) ideas"subject matter (or) content".Our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship."
Suppressing Free Expression
Major media scoundrels are thought control gatekeepers. Instead of reporting vital information accurately, they suppress it. The free interchange of speech, ideas, and opinions suffers. Public opinion's manipulated to support what people should oppose, denounce, and refuse to accept.
Police state laws pass largely below the radar. They erode and destroy fundamental freedoms. The USA Patriot Act alone wrecked key constitutional protections, including:
- Fifth and Fourteen Amendment due process rights;
- First Amendment freedom of association rights;
- Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable searches and seizures;
- prohibitions against unchecked government surveillance powers to monitor virtually all our activities, and use secret "evidence" unavailable to counsel in prosecuting politically targeted defendants.
In addition, the Act created the federal crime of "domestic terrorism." It applies to US citizens and aliens. It states criminal law violations are considered domestic terrorist acts if they aim to "influence (government policy) by intimidation or coercion (or) intimidate or coerce a civilian population."
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