Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Sunday, April 28, 2013

Obama Continues the Attack on Whistleblowers. What's the difference between Obama and Bush/Cheney?

"The Obama administration has been carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers...The Espionage Act, enacted during the first World War to punish Americans who aided the enemy, had only been used three times in its history to try government officials accused of leaking classified information ...Since 2009, [Obama] has used the act to prosecute six government officials..."

http://billmoyers.com/content/slideshow-six-whistleblowers-charged-under-the-espionage-act/
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