“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, December 09, 2004

First Amendment in its Death Throes

Bush administration prepares to pull the plug.

In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.

It has become miserably clear that our government wants to close the marketplace of ideas. If you voted for Bush, you voted to limit all of our freedom to express ourselves. From a writer and a teacher, thanks a lot.

SPACEDARK