The New Clarion

Tyranny on the Small Scale

By Jim May · October 6th, 2009 9:24 pm · 1 Comment ·

While most of our posts here at the New Clarion focus on the big wide picture of our culture’s ever-weakening resistance to primitive tyranny, here’s an instance of this “progression’ on the local scale, which nonetheless includes two key elements: an emboldened, overreaching authority, and a cowed, malfunctioning media.

Adventures in Activism: A True Story of Protest, Arrest, and Release

The Greenville News — Corrupt from Core to Top

The next time some conservative invokes state’s rights or some other such variant of “locality of government power” as a check against government power, slap him (or her) with this one.

Via Diana.

 

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  • 1 Mike // Oct 7, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Unsettling, to say the least.

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