Democracy requires freedom of the press. Judith Miller was jailed, not for anything she wrote, but for something she knew but refused to divulge.
The freedom to maintain silence - except with respect to a crime, and even then, if the information would incriminate the speaker - is essential to every one of us, and if we allow that freedom to be denied to one, it can be denied to all.
Marilyn E. Williams
Ithaca, N.Y., Aug. 29, 2005
I hate to break it to you, Ms. Williams, but the freedom to maintain silence except for self-incrimination is denied to all, equally. So how essential is it, if you didn't even know this?
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