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In reply to the discussion: It's a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities use every method to silence dissent [View all]awoke_in_2003
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It's a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities use every method to silence dissent [View all]
Catherina
Jul 2013
OP
The American way would be to sue. Course when it was tried, there was a small problem
Pholus
Jul 2013
#1
In addition to depriving you of your rights to a free press, free speech, free trial, etc.,
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#85
Exactly! 100% bang on. How can some here be so intellectually dishonest? This is DU!!! n/t
SylviaD
Jul 2013
#139
And THAT is the problem. "Centrist" is now a bad word on both the far left
bushisanidiot
Jul 2013
#97
The other problem is that the definition of word centrist has shifted...
Bonhomme Richard
Jul 2013
#132
People fucking sat back and let him do all the work, then bitched at the results
Hekate
Jul 2013
#155
For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been. That's on US.
Hekate
Jul 2013
#156
let's not forget that MLK Jr was assassinated, very likely by a FBI-run conspiracy
NoMoreWarNow
Jul 2013
#102
She wasn't thrown into solitary confinement for months on end and the UN did not
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#170
The use of lethal force to stop a crime in progress is not an abrogation of due process.
cheapdate
Jul 2013
#179
Really? It's normal in this country to hold an uncharged person in solitary for months on end?
magellan
Jul 2013
#129
I disagree ... IMO it is absolutely torture the way it's implemented in our SuperMax prisons ...
brett_jv
Jul 2013
#105
Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#171
It doesn't matter if he is a coward or not. It is not about him. What he did raised
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#169
Just my opinion, but I don't think the majority of them are authoritarians
LondonReign2
Jul 2013
#57
Much better to keep the sites up so as to allow people to vent, impotently, on the internet.
dawg
Jul 2013
#29
Correct. When we expend our wrath on our keyboards, we are much less likely to do anything
RC
Jul 2013
#59
You need an explanation on how dissent is being silenced? You don't know?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#28
They are probably the same ones who say that Bush kept us safe from attack.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#88
Thanks. I'm willing to bet at least some of those exploiting the unfortunates have read it as well.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#94
How about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and all the others who ran away?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#20
No that wasn't all. Snowden upped it by sharing stolen information with China and Russia.
CakeGrrl
Jul 2013
#95
This embarassingly moronic thread is helping folks TRULY show their ignorance as well as their asses
Number23
Jul 2013
#135
Do I really have to quote your own words to you when they're in a title right ^ there?
Marr
Jul 2013
#131
Back in the day, American dissidents were not put into solitary confinement,
truedelphi
Jul 2013
#116
Excellent post, Catherina. MLK made so many profound, relevant, timeless statements.
Zorra
Jul 2013
#25
It is the standard MO of the MIC to use deceit, aggression, and violence against those most
Zorra
Jul 2013
#61
Psst! I hear rumors of a secret Cable News channel that criticizes the Administration constantly!
brooklynite
Jul 2013
#48
Right? A true 'authoritarian' administration would have ground that upstart out of existence.
CakeGrrl
Jul 2013
#76
Dissent is alive and well. So is quoting Dr. King when trying to make a piss poor argument valid.
great white snark
Jul 2013
#77
+ a million. The only saving grace for this POS OP is that it's not sitting on 300 recs
Number23
Jul 2013
#138
It would be hard for any moderately intelligent person with a second grade understanding of
Number23
Jul 2013
#136
Don't know why you'd care either way. Won't do anything for that transparency page
Number23
Jul 2013
#157
And, just like MLK, it is likely that Snowden will also be assassinated.
NoodleyAppendage
Jul 2013
#182
I hope not. But he sure is hated by the same selfish people, same hypocrites. n/t
Catherina
Jul 2013
#187
Anyone who believes that this is what is going on with Snowden is seriously deluded.
baldguy
Jul 2013
#209