Prairieland Ruling by Activist Texas Judge Criminalizes Political Speech in America (opens in new tab)

Today’s news is Andrew Jackson in 1835, ordering the US mail inspected to suppress abolitionists, asking Congress to criminalize antislavery speech, and stoking state sanctioned mobs to arrest and torture Americans who opposed slavery. Today’s news is Stalin’s Article 58 (PDF) of the RSFSR code, where “anti-Soviet agitation” was a crime that meant whatever the … Continue reading Prairieland Ruling by Activist Texas Judge Criminalizes Political Speech in America →