Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them"
Pity the nation oh pity the people
Who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In the past few months, the United States has undergone a kind of transformation that one only reads about in history books from a nation which imperfectly, yet stolidly, embraced the promise, if not principle, of freedom, especially when it came to that most basic of rights - the Freedom of Expression.
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