What it tells me is that the government doesn't care what political faction it supports as long as the goals of that faction expand it's power, and that at leas

What it tells me is that the government doesn't care what political faction it supports as long as the goals of that faction expand it's power, and that at least some contingent of the liberal movement of that time (which I supported and still would support on principled grounds) had the goal of demoralization and not the goal of free expression.