Suppressing free press is 'how dictators get started': Senator McCain

Reuters  2/19/17

MUNICH (Reuters) - Senator John McCain, defending the media against the latest attack by President Donald Trump, warned that suppressing the free press was "how dictators get started".

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The Arizona Republican, a frequent critic of Trump, was responding to a tweet in which Trump accused the media of being "the enemy of the American people".
The international order established after World War Two was built in part on a free press, McCain said in an excerpt of an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that was released in advance of the full Sunday morning broadcast.  "I hate the press. I hate you especially," he told interviewer Chuck Todd from an international security conference in Munich. "But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital."

"If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started," he continued.  "They get started by suppressing free press. In other words, a consolidation of power. When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history," McCain said.

And there you have it!!  We're saved !!  This is what we can expect from our savior.  Not by rallying his fellow TERRORISTS Traitors  Republicans in the House to IMPEACH the Tyrant.  No no, harsh words will save the day. Most impressive! (cue Darth Vader You Tube)

And here I thought this week's diary would focus on Scott Pruitt being selected to destroy lead the EPA or Congress passing a law making it easier for crazy people to get guns.  Silly me.

I hate ending on a downer.  How about  a Betsy Devos science class?