When you see that speech is controlled, not by open-debate, but by fear and censorship – when you see that in order to invoke your first amendment right to have your voice heard, you need to obtain permission from the men who rebuke the constitution – when you see that validity of speech is determined by arbiters who leverage, not in law, but in politics – when you see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and your representatives don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified – you may well know that your freedom too is soon to perish. (Sundance of the Conservative Treehouse)
