ever happened in rwanda. tutsis had way too much money. they had way too much power. tutsis were way too privileged . they were greedy, they were bigoted. they were racists. they were dangerous. everything about tutsi ness was repulsive. for the most part, actual tutsis in rwanda ignored. all of this. hutu radio was not aimed at them. but then in july of 1994, just nine months after our tlm went on the air, a began in rwanda . more than half a million tutsis were murdered, in many cases by hutus whose rage had been stoked to violence by elm s broadcast. entire tutsi families were dragged from their homes and hacked to death with machetes. hundreds of thousands of women were. the world watched in horror as it happened, but did nothing to intervene. instead, our leaders told us at the time, the in rwanda would live forever as a lesson to the rest of us . about the capacity for evil that lurks inside every human heart and the dangers of reducing our neighbors to the sum total of
publishing books because we have the first amendment . the government can never under any circumstances censor any book period or anything thato sa you have to say, period, because that s the core of our bill of rights. then we learned that amazonignoi and the justice departmentng wee ignoring our bill of rights. amazon apparently based this des decision on a treasury appa designation concerning, quote, disinformation and that designation applies not only to dujon, but also to his family, though not to his daughter. was murdered recently by the ukrainian government. we re not allowed to say that. what did she deo wrong?governme wellnt, i she said the wrong thing, but that s cool because they re fighting for freedom. but that s not point. the point is , in our country, which is very different from ukraine, we re had to read whatever we want. but we can t now because the biden administration is demanding that the biggest bookseller in the worln th d censorwith books that they disagree