“It is crucial to protect and preserve the right to argue that a government has become so tyrannical or dangerous that violence is justified against it.”
“That, after all, was the argument on which the American Founding was based; it is pure political speech; and criminalizing the expression of that idea poses a grave danger to free speech generally and the specific ability to organize against abusive governments. To allow the government to punish citizens — let alone to kill them — because their political advocacy is threatening to the government is infinitely more dangerous than whatever ideas are being targeted for punishment, even if that idea is violent jihad.”
Glenn Greenwald is of course absolutely right.
And his absolutely valid point kind of makes my little effort on this blog to undermine and diminish the government’s power over the American people, by reminding whoever stops by that faith in the government is irrational and un-American, appear positively tame in comparison, doesn’t it?
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