Talk is not cheap
GOVERNMENT SERVES US — WE DO NOT SERVE THE GOVERNMENT
In 1734 a New York newspaper publisher named John Peter Zenger was imprisoned under the seditious libel act for making a statement critical of the royal governor of the colony of New York. Why? Because under the act, it was illegal to criticize the king’s government. Zenger’s defense was based on the claim that he had merely reported the truth, and the jury found in his favor: truth cannot be libel.
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