{"id":364049,"date":"2018-06-04T23:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-state-will-gladly-protect-you\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T23:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:29:37","slug":"the-state-will-gladly-protect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-state-will-gladly-protect-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Will Gladly Protect You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For hundreds of years, western cultures have been refining what is known as Freedom of Conscience.
One of the outcomes of this refinement is Freedom of Speech, a Liberty that is relatively new to the human political experience.
Not long ago, being critical of a government, for instance, could get you killed by that government. Merely speaking out of turn or having critical thought towards the State religion meant torture or death.
But, we have advanced through time to understand that free thought and critical speech is something that a free people must protect and encourage. Thomas Jefferson went as far as to say that repressing Freedom of Conscience was a \u201cSin against God\u201d.<\/p>\n

Suppressing Freedom of Conscience though, was and is seen by the State as self preservation.<\/p>\n

Today, we have access to information that only 20 years ago was other-worldly. Anyone with a cell phone can post a rant or share information to literally the whole world. Because of this information access, people take the information they get from the State influenced main stream media with a grain of salt, or immediately disbelieve it, and usually, rightfully so.
This is dangerous for the State\u2019s propaganda machine, but the State realizes what is even more dangerous to it, would be for the State to appear to suppress it. Whether on the Left or the Right of the political spectrum, people tend to cherish what we now call, \u201cFree Speech\u201d, and rightfully so.
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\nAgainst the State: An …<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.<\/span>
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So what is the State to do? What States always do. Make the people fear their Liberty more than Itself.<\/p>\n

Instead of immediately passing laws suppressing and\/or silencing free speech, the State is manipulating…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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