[whattajoke]

... I don't think life was all that freaking miserable or totalitarian at that time.

Ummm...

...It made people get off their ass

Errrr...

I'm all of freakin' 34 here

Ahhh...

I felt and was a whole HELL of a lot more secure in my freedoms in 1976

Ummm...

I mean, for God's sake...

In 1976 your post would not be suitable for public broadcast. You want that?

[Qwinn]

Yup. No problem. You know why? Cause the odds of me being on a public broadcast any time over the next year is virtually nil. On the other hand, there wasn't -anything- I couldn't say in public back then that would get me anything worse than dirty looks and, if I pushed it too far, a well deserved punch in the jaw.

I'd rather have the bozos on the TV have their rights squelched, than me. You're content to have your rights to say what you want restricted, and give the guy on TV license to say whatever he wants.

I like my way better.

Qwinn

[Qwinn]

Oh, and incidentally, I noted in my first post that I thought the restrictions in 1976 were over the top. I don't have any particular desire to go back to levels that strict either. But there's a WHOLE HELL of a lot of middle ground between where we were then and where we are now, and we're definetly way way way past the point where loosening things up made things better and started to definitively make things worse.

Qwinn