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The American Wikileaks Hacker Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world – including his own http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/368-wikileaks/4402-the-american-wikileaks-hacker Incipient Fascist State By Paul Craig Roberts, Reader Supported News http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/4449-incipient-fascist-state ……”No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny comes understanding, and from that understanding comes support or opposition; and both are necessary…. Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law makers once decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment.” The press is not protected, Kennedy told the newspaper publishers, in order that it can amuse and entertain, emphasize the trivial, or simply tell the public what it wants to hear. The press is protected so that it can find and report facts and, thus, inform, arouse “and sometimes even anger public opinion.” In a statement unlikely to be repeated by an American president, Kennedy told the newspaper publishers: “I’m not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people, for I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.”……. — “Those who say it can’t be done should not interrupt those who are doing it, while paying a living wage.”