Via The Oregonian, “Free speech, Yelm-style

This is about Yelm’s gag rule on “walmart” … I’m sure McClellan would love to have an official gag on the topic of Rove, but he seems to be shutting people down pretty effectively …

There’s a book I just picked up at Orca titled “Gag Rule” about the suppression of dissent. I wrote a paper on the necessary place of dissent in a democracy: “Analysis of dissent, injustice and the making of the United States: an induction from vitriol to victory; a deduction from justice to jurisprudence.