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Pretend that the cops in Russia or some other country we don't like were firing rubber bullets at students protesting their government's genocidal policy.

Every politician, thinktanker and MSM jackhole in the land would be falling all over themselves to declare "solidarity" and demand that Something Be Done.

Hell, look at the outrage when the Georgian police cleared protesters protesting a law remarkably similar to FARA in the United States.

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On December 8, 1967, Senator J. William Fulbright gave a speech on the floor of the Senate. The subject was the Vietnam War.

The prior month, on November 17, LBJ held a press conference in which he said, amongst other things, the following regarding the governments attitude towards dissent IRT the war in SE Asia:

"We don't stop the publication of any papers. We don't fine anyone for something they say....."

Fulbright in his Senate remarks responded with the following:

"I should like to make it clear that I am not the slightest bit grateful to the administration for my freedom of speech. That freedom is an inalienable right which the American people reserved to themselves when they established a constitutional government. It is not the people's freedom which is a gift from their Government, but the Government's authority which is a gift from the people, a retractable trust to be discharged at their pleasure. When the Government abstains from suppressing dissent, it is doing nothing more than complying with one of the explicit conditions of its constitutional trust. That is not a thing for which gratitude is owed."

It is inconceivable that ANY member of the Congress would be capable of saying anything even remotely like this today.

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