Every generation or two, the established order in one Central American country or another is threatened by some form of nationalism, and with United States support the threat is suppressed.
Jimmy Savile reportedly used libel threats to suppress widespread discussion of his behaviour – but as we have now seen, that suppression did not last beyond the grave.
Too few people were willing to speak, much less allow a reporter to use their names, and Weinstein and his associates used nondisclosure agreements, payoffs, and legal threats to suppress their accounts.
Still, a special tribunal upheld charges that he had filed false campaign financial statements, diverting some contributions to investments, then covered up by lying and using threats to suppress evidence.
But the tribunal upheld charges that he had filed false campaign financial statements, diverting some contributions to investments, and then covered up by lying and using threats to suppress evidence.
He was especially wary of the manipulation of international threats to suppress dissent: "Independent thought implies criticism, and criticism is seldom popular in time of war or of danger of war," he wrote.
Although the rebellion failed and was savagely suppressed, the threat to British security posed by the alliance between their French enemies and the Irish rebels prompted the British government to tighten its grip on Ireland.
When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus to their estate at Emesa in Syria.
In a statement, the studio said, "Free expression should never be suppressed by threats and extortion," adding that Sony was actively seeking alternate means of releasing the film, including via video on demand.
Free expression should never be suppressed by threats and extortion.
Bureaucratic structure makes new information a threat that needs suppressing.
