How long before thehighroad is outright censored???

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Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States

the Smith Act

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The Declaration of Independence.
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Don't you see? We have to "off-throw" it, not "overthrow" it.
 
The Smith Act - never heard of it before today - thanks for the link.

I wonder if the Nazi who wrote that stupid law ever read the Declaration of Independence or studied how the United States was born... :cuss:

On second thought he probably was very aware of how the US was born and wrote the law as a job security measure. :rolleyes:
 
Re: Government pressure on an internet site


http://haganah.org.il/harchives/001394.html

This owner of the website above devotes a great deal of his time and effort exposing Islamist "charities" and other organizations that funnel money to terrorists. Apparently, he has pissed off some paper-pushers in a three-letter agency who don't seem to be able to do their own job (arrest these terror funders).
 
There isn't enough problems in the World our our country so lets create one ? I see no reason that THR road should not be up and running 10 years from now still arguing which is better the AK or M16 and who was at falt at WACO.
 
As long as they can be kept fat, lazy, ignorant, and happy, Americans just don't care. And, by the time they do care, it'll be too late.
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Sadly, you are quite right... they will wake up, but probably too late. And until then, people like you and I will continue to be labelled as exremists. :rolleyes:

Really, I just made the statement in an orgy of irrational hope for the idiotic masses. Even I, who made the statement, know better.

:barf:
Wes
 
While the Smith Act remains on the books, prosecutions under it have become much harder since a series of cases in the 1960's that expanded free speech protections. In particular there was Brandenburg v. Ohio which, ironically, had nothing to do with the communists or the Smith act. The specific law in question was the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act which was worded very similarly to the Smith Act. In that case the court held that there was a difference between mere advocacy of law violation and "incitement to imminent lawless action."
 
>>>This thread is quite the eye-opener. Personally, I hope they try it. I hope they do it so blatantly that some of the sheep wake up.

Wes<<<

Wes......thats what I was going for my friend! I do think (however hope) it will be way too late when most people wake up to reality someday.

The old adage....those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it type thing is seriously going to come and haunt some of us someday.

:rolleyes:

~L
 
Tallpine, people don't disappear even when they stop posting here. If you want to know why someone isn't posting, you can always email him. Sometimes people stop posting for whatever reason. Sometimes people do get banned, but it's not very common. We try to do whatever we can before we resort to that, but we can't discuss it with everyone else after the person in question is no longer around to defend himself.

Most people who get banned from THR are not really bad people, just not willing or able to follow THR rules.
 
[tinfoilhat]How do we know The High Road hasn't already been censored?

How do we know the Moderators aren't actually government agents collecting data on gun owners and that discussions here aren't altered all the time to make this forum seem more benign?

How do you know that every other member here could be a government agent and this is all an elaberate trap to get you to admit to some wrongdoing?[/tinfoilhat]

:neener:
 
There's an easy test for that,Zundfolge,

Post something, see if it goes up and stays up. As for being banned, I came within an ace of it myself, not for political reasons, but (I think) because I let the personal acidic (or caustic) juices flow in a matter of literary criticism. I categorically deny that the Budweiser Effect was involved in any way. Snork.
 
Now, now, Zundfolge. All ya gotta do is come on down to Terlingua. I'm really easy to find. Ms. Tracy's cafe at brunchtime; on the porch at GhostTown at beer-thirty, or at the BoatHouse. Otherwise I'm around the house or in the pasture...Heck, I'm even listed in the phone book.

:D, Art
 
Zundfolge —
How do we know the Moderators aren't actually government agents ... every other member here could be a government agent ...
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Fine.

If so, the really terrible aspect would be that government employees were wasting huge amounts of time (on our dime) doing everything except defending the country and catching criminals. I imagine that that's already occurring all over government service.

Oh, my aching checkbook...
 
What would happen if thehighroad.org was hosted outside the US? Could there be any way to avoid US laws this way?

After all, political propaganda is quite legal down here, and our government will tell the US to stuff their legal proceedings into a dark place...
 
The day we have to host THR anywhere outside the US is the day we all take our GPSs and shovels for long drives and walks in the woods.
 
Geek: I hope you mean that's the day you dig it all up.
If you're experiencing an unbearable urge to bury your guns, then it's officially time to dig them up and prepare them for use. If things are that bad...

:(
 
You'll notice I said I was saying it was time for us to take gps and digging tools for a walk, not gps, digging tools and guns.

;)
 
I doubt if those in power really care about, at last count 8,748 people, the number of members on THR. Of course there may be more readers of this site than members, but us members don't constitute much more than the population of a small town.

No, we probably would never be censored since the activities and discussions on this board are moderated for any illegal discussions. This is a completely free and legal discussion group, and believe me, there are a whole lot more "controversial" web sites than THR, which is hardly controversial at all.

I think we are pretty safe here to speak our minds, responsibly of course, without fear of government censorship.
 
How do you know that every other member here could be a government agent and this is all an elaberate trap to get you to admit to some wrongdoing?[/tinfoilhat]
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Well for me, let me assure you:
I do not, nor have I ever worked for a government entity.
Umm, wait. I am a subsitute teacher, that means I work for the public school system which is a county government entity.

OK, I'll be more specific,

I do not work for the federal government, and I have never worked in a national security position.
Umm, wait again, sorry...While in high school I joined the Army and I guess that would be the federal government and in a military/national defense area.

OK, I do not, nor have I ever had any ties to any kind of covert organization.
Opps, sorry again. I joined the Army Reserves in high school so I went to drills for about 8 months before I went to training. So technically, even though I was discharged during training, I was a member of a Special Forces unit for a few months.


Ok, ok. Fine! Just trust me ok. I'm not currently involved in anything that even with the most paranoid outlook would suggest any trouble:evil::neener:
 
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