] So let’s see if I have this correct. Have an audience
] and be overtly critical of the government, lose your job,
] or at least be beaten into impotency. On the grand scale
] our first amendment rights are non-existent. Doesn’t
] it scare people one little bit that one of the most
] important and basic freedoms we have is being trounced
] right in front of their faces. Freedoms that American
] soldiers are dying for right now? Do tax cuts mean that
] much? Do party hard-liners honestly; have no problem with
] this kind of thing from an elected government? Do they
] just chalk it up historical corruption, governments have
] been corrupt forever, and nothing is going to change
] that now? Am I just a fringe lunatic that thinks this is
] inherently wrong and dangerous? I don’t know anymore.
] It seems as if conservatives and the general public are
] content to let this blatant violation of the Constitution
] go unchecked, as long as it is their party doing the
] violating.

Lenny Bruce's courpse must be letting out a sigh.

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