I admire how the United States produce individuals capable of exceptional #courage and sacrifice to oppose #war and its military-intelligence complex:

From #DanielEllsberg to #ChelseaManning to #Snowden to #DanielHale to #AaronBushnell:

Today marks the anniversary of #GiordanoBruno, burned alive by the Roman Inquisitions for his *heretical ideas*.

He reminds us the price paid by those who have changed our society, through uncompromising #courage and #freeThinking, and the huge debt of gratitude we have for them