Speech is suppressed commensurately with its threat to power. It is difficult to see the absence of speech; negative space, absence is difficult even to talk about. Historically speaking, movements of people that posed a threat to the US Government were shattered, suppressed, and then rewritten out of the canonical history as promulgated by the government and its subordinate institutions.<p>What <i>isn&#x27;t</i> being said today because of the way speech and power is structured in the USA? Is there really any voice out there whose words substantially threaten the government? Whenever such a voice gets loud enough, out come the battalions of cops with riot gear, armored vehicles, and chemical weapons. The mainstream media never questions this clockwork logic: it must be as natural as the sun rising and setting in such a society.<p>It is almost a truism that any institution of power will renege on all of its promised rights towards those who would curb or abolish its power. We know after the fact that the government of the USA has done so towards many, many people whom it felt threatened it.