Israel helped Ayatollah Khomeini survive the Iran-Iraq War and persuaded Reagan to arm the Iranian regime. How deeply ironic it all seems today when Israel is Iran’s foremost enemy.
“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
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“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?”
― Keats: Poems Published in 1820
― Keats: Poems Published in 1820
“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“He had come to realize that it was when you were dying that people most wanted things from you - they wanted you to remember, they wanted reassurance, they wanted forgiveness. They wanted acknowledgment and redemption; they wanted you to make them feel better - about the fact that you were leaving while they remained; about the fact that they hated you for leaving them and dreaded it, too; about the fact that your death was reminding them of their own inevitable one; about the fact that they were so uncomfortable that they didn't know what to say.”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
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