[rbg81]

It was not the Patriot Act that banned operas, condemned cartoons, allowed films to be ostracized, or muzzled teachers, but Western self-censorship and fear. Awesome line! I bow in this man's general direction.

[Seaplaner]

RBG, I agree with your opinion about VDH's "awesome line" (among many such similarly well-crafted turns of phrases.

And the phrase ...Western self-censorship and fear is a nicely understated way of saying successfully terrorized.

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