The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror -- David Keyes, Daily Beast
Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.
If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom. It is to champion the idea that all men and women are endowed with certain unalienable rights—free to think our thoughts, speak our minds, associate with whom we want and express our feelings without fear that a tyrant will silence us. Slavery is not only the physical restraining of the body. It is also the imprisonment of the mind—the instinct to quiet one’s thoughts in the face of terror.
This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 19, 2014
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