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To: r9etb
You may not agree with me, but it’s unlikely that a rational person would call them “mindless.”

On this thread you're posting a mindless acceptance of police state tactics being used to force a family to give a child a Tylenol.

56 posted on 01/10/2008 2:42:41 PM PST by PeterFinn (A muslim in the White House would be an Obamination.)
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To: PeterFinn
On this thread you're posting a mindless acceptance of police state tactics being used to force a family to give a child a Tylenol.

Are you nuts? Here is the only opinion I posted on the topic:

No -- we don't have many facts to work with. To assume that the MSM is giving you all of the facts on this story, or any story like it, is contrary to experience.

There appears to be more to this story -- it's best to avoid hasty conclusions.

As noted above, I have a healthy distrust of media reporting on stories like this, gained from cases in which I actually knew the real story, vs. what the media reported. The reporters/editors leave out a lot of the facts and backstory that helps to provide context to the event reported -- facts and context which would completely change how the reader perceives the situation. So no -- I don't trust the reporting on this story. I have a strong suspicion that there's a past history here that is not part of the reporting, but helps to explain what happened.

It would be difficult for a reasonable person to translate my comments about the MSM, into "mindless acceptance" of anything. If you want to mindlessly accept this media account, that's your problem, not mine.

58 posted on 01/10/2008 3:00:17 PM PST by r9etb
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