Daily Take: Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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A chilling tale of detention, interrogation, and exile for the ‘crime’ of writing a blog.
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| 1:07.7 | epigraph, an opening quote, by Benjamin Franklin. |
| 1:11.4 | He said, whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the |
| 1:16.6 | freeness of speech. |
| 1:19.6 | The Trump administration just refused to allow an Australian writer entry to America |
| 1:24.5 | because he'd penned articles on his personal blog critical of the administration's |
| 1:29.5 | support for the Netanyahu government's Gaza policies. Whether you support or oppose those |
| 1:35.6 | policies, this should shock every American. George Orwell noted in his novel 1984, |
| 1:43.3 | The Thought Police are always watching. The only safe way was to think nothing, to know nothing, to believe nothing. Are we there yet? Throughout my lifetime, American politicians of both parties have been outspoken in defending the right of people to speak their minds regardless of their positions. |
| 2:02.4 | Echoing the quote often misattributed to Voltaire, I disapprove of what you say, but I will |
| 2:07.5 | defend to the death your right to say it, elected officials from Lincoln to Goldwater to |
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