"The library didn't only contain magical books,
the ones which are chained to the shelves and are very dangerous. It
also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in
mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also
dangerous just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the
sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making
fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain."
I'd forgotten this; it needs to be stuck up in prominent places to remind us of what's at stake whenever some statist control freak(I'm looking at you clowns, Feinstein and Durbin) try once more to restrict speech.
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The linked piece quotes Feinstien giving a wonderful freudian slip:
"Special privilege"
That's what a pre existing and enumerated right is being turned into for a favoured few.
A privilege to be granted by politicians.
and if they can grant, then they can just as easily take away.
The Arab countries didn't allow their populations to voice or write their discontent, as Mubarak, Khadaffi, and Assad have found out, the discontent builds and is then expressed in other, less pleasant ways.
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