Freedom of Speech

The government is criminalizing journalism.

"In any authoritarian regime, reporters who don’t belong to the David Gregory school of journalism are always considered "accomplices": that’s because their adversarial position in relation to the political class, by the standards of today’s Washington, is inherently treasonous. Any journalist who takes his or her job seriously is, in the post-9/11 era, a suspect in a potential crime against the State."

There's very few of those.

"Rogers’ threat is clearly aimed at Greenwald: yes, that’s what it’s come to – a native born American who dares speak truth to power cannot set foot on US soil without fear of arrest. In a Bizarro World inversion of the cold war era, our dissidents are going to Moscow, where they languish in exile hoping for a better day. And a broad coalition extending from Cass Sunstein to a Republican congressman from Michigan is demanding a revision of the First Amendment that would render it impotent. "

Another example of upside-world.

"When I was a wee libertarian lad, we used to have a slogan, the kind you put on stickers and leave in public places: SAVE YOUR CANDLES, THE DARK AGES ARE COMING! Back then, in the 1960s, if anyone had suggested that by 2014 we’d be living in the kind of country where one’s every communication is recorded and stored – the kind where journalists fear to report the truth about what their government is doing, and where the abolition of the First Amendment is being openly considered by elected officials – they would’ve been ridiculed as purveyors of pure speculative fiction. And with no small justification: in retrospect, however, it turns out that old bumper sticker was prescient as hell. "

Nobody says it can't happen here any more. Now they say they don't care because it affect them. First, they came for the Socialists...