Posted on 01/20/2005 11:10:44 AM PST by immigrationreformactivist
In communist East Berlin, one sign of the government's swollen self-regard was the cluttering of public spaces with propaganda banners by which the government praised itself for providing socialism... Democrats, too, have violated the spirit, and perhaps the letter, of various laws... It is impossible to draw, with statutory language, a bright line between legitimate informing and illegitimate propagandizing by government. What is indispensable is common sense, and that is atrophying as this lawyer-ridden nation sinks deeper into the delusion that sensible behavior can be comprehensively codified...
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Will is an American, something unique for the media. He has an American's perspective of government and the people, as opposed to that of the far-left socialists and their lap-dog, the MSM.
This is a good write-up. Things that any American who wants to keep American's individual liberties FREE, and keep the country free of a corrupt and self-serving government, should be aware of, and always on the watch.
His toughness on this issue is undoubtedly influenced by his opposition to this particular legislation.
It is an interesting article. But your blurb completely misrepresents what it is about.
A very good read.... Interesting point of view.
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His toughness is based on his oppsition to Big Government whether it is under a Pubbie or Rat, and that is good.
It tough to determine whether the excerpt represents anything at all.
Yeah ... right George ... and you should be baseball commissioner.
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I think information management is critical for a nation as it is an element of war. To protect our nation's security, information must be managed in such a way as to enhance that security WITHIN limitations that allow ready access to to true facts for all our citizens.
Abu Ghraib is a case-in-point. Would it have been better for our nation to have better managed the release of the photographs considering their propaganda value.
To withhold them would be to engage in propaganda on our part. To release them could mean the injury/death of some of our troops in the field.
Where do we draw the line regarding information and security? I'd say we must draw it at the point where real national interests are jeopardized. (And that doesn't mean when political party interests are jeopardized.)
bump!
Word is that a lady walked up to him once, introduced herself, said she'd told her friends she was headed to meet him, and they bet her that she couldn't get three words out of him.
His response..."You lose."
That is a fascinating idea. Families suing the media for the release of info that caused the death of troops.
The media equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.
Indeed, and a "two-fer" at that since the culpable media is so far left ideologically and have supported the trial lawyers wrt tort reform. I wonder how they would feel to be facing the point instead of the handle of the legal weapon?
"When conservatives break with their principles, they seem to become casual about breaking the law, too. "
Best line in the article.
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