#Bestof2022: #EspionageAct: Woodrow Wilson 1915 to Rand Paul 2022. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
1913 DC
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone's tired of looking for keys. |
| 0:14.0 | So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked |
| 0:18.0 | and turned on |
| 0:21.0 | with your phone. |
| 0:25.0 | while I will listen to take us next, |
| 0:28.0 | Honda the power of dreams. This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Espionage Act. |
| 0:39.2 | President Woodrow Wilson, State of the Union, December 7, 1915, asking Congress. |
| 0:46.4 | There are citizens of the United States, says the President. |
| 0:49.3 | I bless to admit, born under other flags, but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws |
| 0:55.8 | to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty |
| 1:01.8 | into the very arteries of our national life. The president |
| 1:05.8 | goes on to say such creatures of passion disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed |
| 1:11.2 | out. They are they many, but they are infinitely malignant, and |
| 1:16.6 | the hand of our power should close over them at once. And the President goes on to ask for what we now call the Espionage Act. |
| 1:26.0 | I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution who is here to help me understand |
| 1:32.3 | the events of these last days when this Espionage Act |
| 1:36.1 | is mentioned repeatedly when it comes to the former President of the United States, |
| 1:42.0 | Donald Trump. I mention at the same time that |
| 1:45.4 | tweeting within these last hours from Wilson's address to the Congress in |
| 1:50.4 | 1915 to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky's address to the world in of the Espionage Act now calling it egregious. |
| 2:04.4 | Professor Richard Epstein at the Hoover Institution joins me, |
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