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If we don't defend free speech, we live in tyranny: Salman Rushdie shows us that

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"'[T]hat sort of thing never happens here' has been proven false: in our present world, anything can happen anywhere. American democracy is under threat as never before: the attempted assassination of a writer [Salman Rushdie] is just one more symptom."

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Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, (more...)
 

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