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Siva on Free Speech in the U.S.
posted by mpawlo on Monday February 09, @04:18AM
from the security-or-civil-liberties---do-we-have-to-choose? dept.
Civil Liberties Siva Vaidhyanathan has published a new column on the subject of civili liberties, free speech and security measures in the U.S. The article is introduced:

'How committed are we to free speech? In the first of his new monthly columns on life in America, Siva Vaidhyanathan, passionate champion of liberty, abandons the cause when faced with airport security, his wife and the ghost of Woody Guthrie.'

Read the column at Open Democracy.

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    sticker (Score:1)
    by scubacuda (reversethis-{moc.emani} {ta} {aducabucs}) on Monday February 09, @09:41AM (#1466)
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    Here [subvertise.org] is the "This Machine Kills Fascist" sticker he's talking about.

    There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream pie. Noel Godin

    Re:sticker (Score:1)
    by TFBW on Tuesday February 10, @06:37AM (#1470)
    User #844 Info | http://www.nutters.org/user/famous
    Ah -- now I see what Tom Lehrer was satirising in the following lines.

    Remember the war against Franco?
    That's the kind where each of us belongs.
    Though he may have won all the battles,
    We had all the good songs!

    So join in the Folk Song Army,
    Guitars are the weapons we bring
    To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
    Ready! Aim! Sing!

    -- Tom Lehrer, The Folk Song Army

    The pontification continues at Nutters.org [nutters.org].

    Re:sticker (Score:1)
    by scubacuda (reversethis-{moc.emani} {ta} {aducabucs}) on Wednesday February 11, @10:24AM (#1471)
    User #483 Info | http://www.greplaw.org/
    Yep...Lehrer is a real kick!

    There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream pie. Noel Godin

    Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov

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