[WilliamofCarmichael]

What Mr. Steyn is describing vis-a-vis our free speech sounds like the Great Sedition Trial of 1944.. the purpose of the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 was to destroy Roosevelt's critics as attention turned to post-war matters particularly about relations with communists. IMO.

The Great Sedition Trial of 1944

FDR started with small fry and planned to move up the chain of opposition.

FDR failed. Obama might succeed, the Establishment today is arguably aging 1960s New Left Marxist-Alinsky radical, campus psycho spoiled brats and their ideological issue. The Establishment in FDR's days were Americans who eventually stopped:

". . . one of the blackest marks on the record of American jurisprudence. In the legal world, none can recall a case where so many Americans were brought to trial for political persecution and were so arrogantly denied the rights [guaranteed] an American citizen under the Constitution.”

There was a long trial. The DoJ prosecutor was a friend of Stalin. President Harry Truman put an end to it all.

[skinkinthegrass]

SIR, That's a GEM...