I don't know what's there. I have every right to be there.
I won't violate intellectual property rights or view child porn.
But if I don't do anything illegal, they are doing something illegal.
This isn't the Soviet Union and I'm not going to start acting like it.
Because if we all started acting like it was, it mind as well be.
I'm a political scientist, and have both the right and a legitimate reason.
Not that I need a legitimate purpose, because my right is already sufficient.
I'm interested in ISIL propaganda. I'm a scholar. I want to study it.
I'm also afraid of going to the sorts of websites I'd need to go to in order to view it.
Do you know what that means?
That means America is broken.
Freedom is broken.
The first stage is of censorship is self-censorship
The scary thing, I think, is something that we all know.
In the scope of human civilization, freedom is the anomaly.
The default state of human society over the centuries has been tyranny.
We achieved something rare, hard gained and lost relatively easily.
Should we lose it now, how many tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years will it be before it regained?
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