curtail dissent

Someone inform the Bush administration that their tireless efforts to placate the American public are becoming transparent. Over classification, stonewalling investigations and now this? From Defensetech...

Defense Tech: WORST. REDACTION. EVER. Just when you thought our government's secrecy policies couldn't get any more ridiculous, this little nugget comes down the pike. In a legal battle with the ACLU, the Justice Department blacked out a section of a legal document -- not because it disclosed sensitive information, but because it contained a quote from the Supreme Court that warned about the dangers of stifling speech in the name of "security." "The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent." "Now we have absolute, incontrovertible proof that the government also censors completely innocuous material simply because they don't like it," The Memory Hole's Russ Kick thunders. "The mind reels at such a blatant abuse of power (and at the sheer chutzpah of using national security as an excuse to censor a quotation about using national security as an excuse to stifle dissent)."

Seems to go hand in hand with this May 2004 post on the removal of the FDR memorial quotes from the from National Park Service webpage. You know, scary things like this *below* that the Federal Government has deemed inappropriate for the public to see...