# The Intimidation Game  ## Metadata - Author: [[Kimberley Strassel]] - Full Title: The Intimidation Game - Category: #books ## Highlights - Citizens United launched the modern intimidation game. ([Location 20](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=20)) - Citizens United swept much of it away. Five justices restored the speech rights of millions of Americans. ([Location 24](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=24)) - the stories show that those who want absolute control over the debate are happy to silence anyone who proves a threat to their ideology. ([Location 62](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=62)) - tying together free speech and free association: ([Location 414](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=414)) - Edward Rumely helped establish the Committee for Constitutional Government, ([Location 418](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=418)) - the only other way “most people can participate effectively in politics.” To the extent that the government “unreasonably inhibits or discourages” this, it violates the First Amendment. ([Location 509](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=509)) - Regulate money and you regulate speech. ([Location 581](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=581)) - Finance laws are a restriction on the people; they empower government. ([Location 604](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=604)) - the modern intimidation game. And it now defines American politics. ([Location 611](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=611)) - The Tillman Act wasn’t passed out of some thoughtful, benevolent congressional desire to clean up dirty politics. It was dirty politics. ([Location 632](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=632)) - Hatch Act, which limited the political activity of federal employees. ([Location 641](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=641)) - Smith-Connally Act. In theory, the law was about giving the federal government power to seize and operate wartime industries threatened ([Location 646](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=646)) - by strike. ([Location 647](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=647)) - The 1947 Taft-Hartley Act banned both unions and corporations from spending money on pretty much any federal political activity. ([Location 649](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=649)) - Brad Smith, in his book Unfree Speech, ([Location 667](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01BKSLHL6&location=667))