The Daring Dufas wrote:

Well, it's certainly happening in our lifetimes.

The good times lasted until John Adams came up with the Sedition Act:

"SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall write, print,
utter, or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed,
uttered, or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in
writing, printing, uttering, or publishing any false, scandalous and
malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States,
or either House of the Congress of the United States, or the President of
the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either
House of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or
either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or
either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States,
or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful
combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United
States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance
of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the
United States; or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act; or to
aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the
United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof
convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by
imprisonment not exceeding two years. "

http://constitution.org/rf/sedition_1798.htm