P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Politics won't allow for the truth.
O'Rourke, P. J. Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.
The American Founding Fathers were aware of Sidney and others who were executed for what they said about the King and the government. Hence, the First Amendment. However, John Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which turned criticism into treason. It was repealed later and would probably have been declared unconstitutional if it had not been repealed. However, during the First World War, critics were also jailed. Eugene Debs, a Presidential Candidate, served several years in jail until pardoned. He had opposed the war and the Draft of soldiers. Freedom of Speech and Treason have been in contention whenever the nation might be at war or in a crisis. Supreme Court decisions may have put an end to future American censorship efforts of this kind.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. See {634097} and {585962}--Samuel Johnson, for a 1758 version of this idea.
Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Since 2011, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.
