Articles with descent into authoritarianism

Who Thinks This Is A Good Idea?

Governance Board Gone, or Merely Gone Underground? § The news out today is that the Homeland Security Misinformation/Disinformation Governance Board has been “paused.” I am leery of the meaning of “paused” as used by the…

by Syme Antipathic
Posted on May 3, 2022May 19, 2022

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1812-1845
(Youngest Justice [age 32] ever appointed to Supreme Court)

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. . . . There is certainly no small danger, that indifference [to the right to keep and bear arms] may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”

Liberty Letters, 1833