Posted on 07/06/2005 2:33:03 PM PDT by freepatriot32
You've got it -- that's exactly the feeling. You have a way with words. We have to hang with these people we despise because our freedom is intimately intertwined with theirs. They're the crazy aunt that's got to be cared for one more time... or the person who knows home is the place where they have to take you in... and we'll be there.
No, we don't have to hang with them and No, our freedom isn't meshed with theirs.
What they are doing is demanding that they, as a social/professional class, should not have to testify in court...something that if it was applied fairly to *all* citizens would end having witnesses at most or all civil and criminal trials...thereby denying the accused their Constitutional right to see their accusers in Court.
NOTE: no one is telling them that they can't print a story without naming a Source. What they are being told is that in criminal matters, they have to testify in court if they are a witness to a crime...just like every other Joe Citizen.
Granted, such testimony *may* one day be made public; thereby outing the occassional source. Too bad. So-called "Sources," you see, have no more rights to being anonymous than anyone else (e.g. you).
Inventing "rights" to shield reporters from being criminal witnesses HARMS the rights of the accused, harms the rights of the Public, and threatens our entire legal system (should such "rights" be broadened to cover even more professions).
Jail them. Jail them all. Jail *every* reporter who even whispers a promise of Source confidentiality in criminal matters. Lock them up and bring High School classes in to prisons on visitor-day field trips to see first-hand what unethical behavior delivers to its practitioners.
Go class of '98!
Its the msm and john kerry its more like they have delusions of mediocrity
"Is the MSM worthy of the 1st Amendment?"
Rather than hang all the captured traitors of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion, General Winfield Scott ordered those who had entered the service before the official declaration of war branded with the letter "D" as deserters and sentenced to time at hard labor before being released.
I suggest that the moral lepers of the MSM be tried to see which are to be hanged, and which only branded and jailed.
This one falls into your designated witty percentile ("DISCLAIMER: I will occasionally post something intelligent, insightful, and/or witty. Please humor me the other 99% of the time.").
I'm not quite sure I understand how important it is for them to be able to endlessly write stories without naming sources. I can't quite see how that advances freedom. While it would be wrong and unconstitutional to try to prohibit them from doing so, it certainly doesn't need to be encouraged by giving them special privileges.
One down. Several thousand to go.
That law prevents a person who committed a crime from profiting from it; in Miller's case, she has committed no crime.
By refusing to testify, she has...
i don't feel sorry for her in the least.
1. the nyt has not performed its constitutional function.
2. the nyt is leftist swill.
3. the reasons that journalists are so jealous of their sources is not because they're constitutionalists, but because journalists often use this ruse to lie.
yes, lie. sometimes they have no sources. but they want to ensure their leftist views hold sway.
delusions of mediocrity
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