"Law enforcement has the right to enforce the law of the land, but the First Amendment is also the law of the land, and right now those laws are coming into conflict," says Joyce Meskis. She ought to know. She helped write Protecting Customer Privacy in Bookstores, a pamphlet for the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. She probably didn't realize that she would eventually be following her own advice...
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."