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** THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020
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The citizen is sovereign only when he can retain and enjoy the fruits of his labor. If the government has first claim on his property he must learn to genuflect before it. When the right of property is abrogated, all the other rights of the individual are undermined, and to speak of the sovereign citizen who has no absolute right to property is to talk nonsense. It is like saying that the slave is free because he is allowed to do
-- Plato, The Republic, VII [c. 370 B.C.]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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June 25, 2020
The Nonsense of "National Security" ([link removed])
President Trump’s attempt to suppress publication of a new book by his former national-security advisor John Bolton has, not surprisingly, raised First Amendment issues. But there is another issue that everyone ignores: the “national security” argument that Trump is using to justify his attempt to suppress the book. Trump is alleging that ...
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