When the freedom of speech and of the press die, it will happen by a thousand small cuts.
Last Friday night, in the sleepy 1,900-person town of Marion, Kansas, all five police officers in the town were summoned to work because of an urgent need. They were ordered by their chief to execute a search warrant immediately, which they did.
But the restaurant owner wanted to strike back at a reporter who discovered that the restauranteur — though holding herself out as a municipal paragon while applying for a liquor license — had a DWI conviction. So the restauranteur told the police that the only way the reporter could have learned of the DWI conviction was by stealing the restauranteur’s identity, pretending to be the restauranteur, looking up “her own” driving record and then writing about it.
Thus, FBI agents and local cops, presidents and school board members, congressmen and soldiers all are bound to protect the freedom of speech and are expressly prohibited from interfering with it. When the Nixon administration sought and obtained an injunction against the publication of the papers, the Supreme Court intervened and held that matters material to the public interest are fair game for publication, no matter how they were acquired. Thus, the Times and the Post and their reporters were immune from civil or criminal liability for the acquisition and publication of the papers.
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