I think it’s safe to say this no longer applies to this society.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
— Adlai Stevenson
When we have screeds like this where someone insists that, as for those who leaked the facts about citizens’ communications being monitored, “we should then hang them by the neck until they are dead, dead, dead” I think we have left the marked road and are way off in the weeds.
Fringe belief? Maybe. But where are adults on the pro-war side who can talk these eliminationists down? Just a month ago, the son of a former president called for the execution of the chairman of the opposition party.
It should come as no surprise I am renewing my passport.
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