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Pentagon papers and media resistance

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Constitutional update to bar insurrectionists from office

Hussein

Alexei Navalny

Watergate anecdote

Nero Seneca and burrus

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“If the democratic political process has been eviscerated by an autocratic regime [. . .] how does the ethical equation change? While the outward norms of bureaucratic culture may need to be maintained [. . .], moral accountability rises to a first-order concern. Is is in this situation that ‘just following orders’ is itself a crime, and followership is tested at its moral core.”

“Classical liberal values are the sacrosanct protections of individual freedoms to think, speak, write, associate, congregate, and live free of arbitrary government coercion. The only legitimate constraints on these rights are where their use denies or abrogates the same rights for others.”

“The usurper of political power violates the essential values that protect individual freedoms and collective decision-making.”

Notes on violence as support

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“If [activists] amplify messages that generate fear and hate, and likely voters respond receptively to these, the office seeker with autocratic tendencies will take notice. They will be encouraged to deliver more of this ‘red meat’ to the crowd. The slippery slope will become increasingly treacherous, with few footholds to stop the descent into a hopelessly antagonistic citizenry.”

“When we give our heart and soul to a cause, we will have fewer regrets if we also use our brains and keep an engaging leader separated in our minds from the cherished cause. We reserve our critical thinking faculties not to conflate the emerging tyrannical profile with the cherished cause.”

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Baltic Chain - thousands of people holding hands through Vilnius, Riga, and Talinn to express support for declaring independence from the USSR in 1989

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