The Big Chill: The less you know the better

[MSgt213]

It is awfully cold in Washington, D.C., these days, and the arrival of Spring is not going to change the frigid temperature beginning to grip the nation's capital.

Washington, D.C., is fast becoming a cold, cold place under this President and his Administration.
The Big Chill is on and it's becoming an ice age for the People's right-to-know.

The New York Times and Washington Post recently won Pulitzer Prizes for breaking through the Administration's secrecy to inform the American people about secret prisons and secret wiretapping.
In response, the Administration directed its Attorney General to see if he might invoke a 1917 Espionage Act as a way to make the First Amendment disappear.

By controlling what you know, they hope to control what you think.

It is the solution to their Iraq dilemma. You don't have to mislead people, as the President did, if the American people simply do not know at all.

That's what this assault on free speech is all about.

The President and his Administration are doing everything possible to impose censorship. They know that secrecy is the fastest, most effective way to silence dissent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jim-mcdermott/the-big-chill_b_20747.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Good luck, huh?

We know where to get our information, and it isn't MSNBC.

[Selatius]

2. Wait a second. The Espionage Act of 1917 is still on the damn books!?

Is the fucking Sedition Act of 1918 on there as well?

If Bush is using these laws, he's as totalitarian as Wilson ever was. The only difference is Wilson was successful in liquidating the anti-war movement and provoking the first Red Scare. He sent Eugene Debs, one of the most prominent activists for worker rights at the time, to prison for ten years. He was guilty of both being anti-war and being a democratic socialist.

[MSgt213]

3. Funny how the only time they want to obey the law is when they use it

against someone else.

[Sequoia]

4. Interesting. I'll have to look him up. Thanks.

Man, I read a lot and I hate it when I don't know about something. When I was a kid growing up in the south during the civil-rights movement we were so isolated from the real world that I was shocked to find out about the dogs and fire hoses in Mississippi and Alabama and also angry that I didn't know about it. So what if I was only 6 or so....still! My kid knows a lot about the world because she watches the real news..."The Daily Show"!