"Yes, I have freedom of speech -- until they decide to lock me up on some flimsy pretext, as they could do any time. The only reason they haven't is that I'm so ineffectual. "
I think this is nonsensical fatalism. Elites have generally found that the best way to preserve their power is to protect many basic rights while occasionally attacking minority groups covertly and (when they can get political cover with the general population) overtly. The fact is our economic and political elites have no idea whether they've defended too many rights too often, or too few and not often enough (assuming the goal is for them to preserve power). they don't know the future any better then you or I do. -- -Nathan Tankus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
