Welcome to Liberty Lockdown,

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Your Liberty ain't gone, but yeah, it's on hold.

Where did it come from and where did it go?

Wanted to actually do a solo episode on a singular article, which I rarely rarely do but this is such a particularly

important topic and one that I feel has not gotten enough coverage and it's

fairly complicated so I feel like if you have gotten coverage of it it's probably been

segmented so you don't get like the full portrait so I'm going to read this article and then give you my thoughts about it because I think it's one of the most important stories of our time and unfortunately it seems to be getting kind of put to the back burner and I don't think that it should.

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i i wanted to talk about this article from tablet magazine i'm to actually pull it up so that you guys can read along with me if you like. You don't have to.

Because I'm going to be reading it to you. But it is an important one in a story that I still can't even believe that it happened, but we all know it to be true.

So here we go. This is by Jacob Seagull on March 28th. So just four days ago, five days ago, whatever it is.

Prologue, the information war. In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government.

Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing.

Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of

205 communists in the State Department. The next day he revised it to 57.

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