RE: Sing Loud, Rage Louder
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I hadn't heard of Bob Vylan until yesterday. I have, however, been hearing for years now about the Israeli government pushing Palestinians out of their homes, bombing Gaza indiscriminately, killing aid workers in pre-approved convoys, attacking the USS Liberty, and trying to get the US roped into wars in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
Free speech has been dying in the US for years. You could argue the first crisis was over 200 years ago with the Alien and Sedition Acts. Lincoln jailed his critics during the Civil War. Wilson crushed dissent during WW1, including landmark Supreme Court cases declaring it a crime to discourage enlistment. Skipping ahead to my own lifetime, the PATRIOT Act was a travesty clearly prepared ahead of time and held for when a crisis would allow it to pass unquestioned.
Definitely no news that governments try to crush dissent. These days it's so transparent and hard to hide the truth though. What gets me is the hypocrisy - they can bang on about China and other regimes but they are no different.
I think a vast majority of people see what he said as reasonable given circumstances. That makes me feel marginally better.
It doesn't reverse genocide though. Makes me feel sick.
Independence Day is tomorrow. The founders should be a source of clean energy at the rate they're spinning in their graves now.
Ha, what a great image.