To Be Silenced, Or Not to Be: That is the Question
by Debi Smith -- meal making, laundry washing, toilet swishing, bill paying, teen transporting, hug giving, information gathering concerned American -- writes from Ashland, Oregon, where she shares a home with her husband, two children, a cat, and a dog.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. --Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the U.S.

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