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Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt: You know, I wouldn't be a peacenik if the War side were willing to treat American citizens like human beings. Freedom is Slavery.

Bureaucrats get EBay Fever: "So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports."

Sophie's World: I'm about forty pages into it. It's not a novel, at least not yet; it's a very entertaining textbook on the history of philosophy. I'm enjoying it. The device of "Sophie reads a bit of philosophy, then Sophie thinks about it" may yet get irritating, but it hasn't so far. (And I will be extremely disappointed if "Sophie Amundsen" isn't a linguistic joke on "Wisdom, the son of Man." Please don't tell me if it isn't.)

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[rubinpdf.livejournal.com]

And here's yet another:
Permission to Speak (http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/columns/rt100902.shtml)
Last week, a shipment of pamphlets from the Ayn Rand Institute was stopped by Canadian customs and detained for three days under suspicion of being "hate propaganda."What was in this pamphlet? Such "hate"-filled passages as: "We stand for individual rights and freedom. In the name of justice, of defending the good, we support Israel. In a region dominated by despotism and totalitarian dictatorships, Israel alone upholds rights." But the definition of "hate speech" is utterly subjective. "Hate speech" is any expression of ideas that might conceivably arouse an emotion of hatred in its readers...
Speech is not free if it is allowed only by permission of the state.

[dasphios.livejournal.com]

::Sigh:: Well, I appriciate the warning. Might have to run back to Ireland, and step up my plans and start a revolution in Djibouti right away.

I'll find something.