Daniel Ellsberg: “They are reversing freedoms we’ve had since the Magna Carta.”

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40. Oh sorry...

Maybe I didn't word it well enough.

I remember very well the day I had a gun pointed at me by some whackjob during a protest at Univ. of CO in Boulder over the Secret Bombing of Cambodia. I also remember that the focus of the protests for many was the draft, although others had a wider anti-war stance, including me.

But my point is that era of empowerment allowed MANY groups to step past traditional, conformational standards of behavior, and demand that their voices be heard.

Now things are different. Now there is "a combination of power, money and education in the service of creating an almost lethal restriction of what can be heard, said, learned and debated in the public sphere."

Now, unlike then, the people are dis-empowered.


Peace.