The U.S. Government has Proven Itself Untrustworthy
In 1887, the United States Army Signal Corp banned the word “tornado” from public broadcasts.
The reason?
Here’s what a Chief Signal Officer wrote in explanation: “The harm done by such predictions would eventually be greater than that which results from the tornado itself.”
At the time, a gentleman by the…
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