[LINK] Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States

[Rick Welykochy]

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/post_1394_b_795001.html>

   "This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in
    acts of serious aggression against their own constituents, and the
    American people in general. They both invoked the 1917 Espionage Act
    and urged its use in going after Julian Assange. For good measure,
    Lieberman extended his invocation of the Espionage Act to include a
    call to use it to investigate the New York Times, which published
    WikiLeaks' diplomatic cables. Reports yesterday suggest that U.S.
    Attorney General Eric Holder may seek to invoke the Espionage Act
    against Assange.

    These two Senators, and the rest of the Congressional and White House
    leadership who are coming forward in support of this appalling development,
    are cynically counting on Americans' ignorance of their own history -- an
    ignorance that is stoked and manipulated by those who wish to strip
    rights and freedoms from the American people. They are manipulatively
    counting on Americans to have no knowledge or memory of the dark history
    of the Espionage Act -- a history that should alert us all at once to
    the fact that this Act has only ever been used -- was designed deliberately
    to be used -- specifically and viciously to silence people like you and me.

    ... "


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rickw


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