robertteh, your posts are always very detailed, you've a deep
knowledge of country affairs and you always know what questions to
ask. "They" fear you. 
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter ones thoughts and
opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of
tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They
know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers,
founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are
allowed to reason
There can be on right of speech where any man
[is] compelled to
suppress his honest sentiments.
Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a
double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those
of the speaker."
Frederick DOUGLASS
In famous plea for free speech in Boston 1860
American abolitionist, author, orator (1817-1895)
