Forwarded: The New Totalitarianism

[unixronin]

jilara reports briefly on the official harassment of journalists for speaking out against the New Pravda ... True, they didn't pass a law, so it's not TECHNICALLY a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Wonder where they'll site the Gulags when Gitmo overflows?

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[caged-admin.livejournal.com]

Having re-read the linked post a third time, I've just realized that I interpreted "no-fly list" as "list of journalists not allowed to fly with the President," whereas the poster presumably meant they are either on the watch list for domestic flights -- or barred from them entirely.

Assuming that, I suspend the first and second parts of my comment. The third stands. And I add a new comment, again based on the above assumption: who cares that the women are white or middle-aged? And I'd like to see evidence of causation, please, not correlation. I can relate or research any number of anecdotes related to the stupidities of the lists and the security procedures at airports. This sounds like a case of flamboyant narcissism to me.