Bad news in France. P.S. This is how governments operate

[Minimalist]

The only speech worth protecting is the speech that people might not like or agree with.

There is a contradiction, however, in governmental MOs and indeed the possible raison d'etre for a government.

On the one hand, the government's primary focus is the welfare of its citizens (or at least should be. Which is itself a contradiction, perhaps...), thus it should be preventing those that would harm this notion from operating, which in turn means it's preventing the welfare of its citizens.

FUCK.

and hence the discourse of politics is born.

The US used it to turn the 'land of the free' ( which, okay, was horseshit anyway) into the land where they fucking snoop on every phone call and email you make.

You know what. The terrorists have already won.

[The Grand Nudger]

Sure have, all 535 of them.

[Mudhammam]

(This is an actual logo that appeared on a U.S. spy rocket).