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To: hellinahandcart
BTW, how many times since yesterday have you read the words "Chicken Little" or "sky is falling", in response to people's outrage over this ruling?

Rather a lot... but alarmism aside, this is not a good time for free speech in America. I guess we'll get it sorted out eventually, but it would have been better had it never come to pass.

I tend to view it as a manifestation of the "last gasp of the Establishment Media"-- it was never a popular idea with voters, but the press promoted CFR madly, under their general-purpose panic mantra "We Gotta Do Something About This!"

I suspect that like with Prohibition, creative Americans will find a way to dodge around it... like, maybe, the offshore Pirate Radio station "Radio Free America..."

22 posted on 12/11/2003 3:05:35 AM PST by backhoe (Earth First! [ We can strip-mine the other planets later...])
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To: backhoe
"I suspect that like with Prohibition, creative Americans will find a way to dodge around it... like, maybe, the offshore Pirate Radio station "Radio Free America..."

Sadly, they would find a way to take that station down. Just as they have voided the low power community radio law by refusing to process lisence requests. Free speech is no longer that. It's for sale to the highest bidder.
37 posted on 12/11/2003 6:34:11 AM PST by Beck_isright (This tag line edited by the 9th Circuit Court due to offensive political commentary)
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