Posted on 02/28/2002 1:53:58 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Truth is not a free good, and the First Amendment does not guarantee us "the truth". To the contrary it stipulates that the government shall not muzzle us even when somebody (or most everybody) thinks we are wrong. Sorting out the truth is not the government's job; we the people have that task, and cannot delegate it and remain free.
It's why Shays-Meehan's attempt to muzzle citizen groups while handing Big Media sole proprietorship over retailing political news is so insidious -- and dangerous. Both are enshrined in the bill, a dastardly twisted piece of deceit in the guise of "reform".
Big Media has two distinct components: print journalism and broadcast journalism. The First Amendment could scarcely be clearer that print journalism--any print medium--can say 'most anything it wants.
But broadcasting as we know it--hence broadcast journalism as we know it--would not exist without government censorship. Without, that is, government's assigning certain frequencies at certain locations to certain people and forbidding anyone to broadcast without leave.
The author and ratifiers of the First Amendment surely would have loved FR and hated the FCC; access to publishing in the former is more democratic than the press whereas the latter is purely government regulation and elitism. It is ironic that Democrats started talking about "the rich man's wallet and the poor man's soap box" at the very moment that the internet in general and FreeRepublic in particular was empowering "the poor man's soap box." CFR advocates, however, desire the opposite. They desire to censor we the people. They have not the slightest thought of censoring the people who believe the press cllippings they themselves lovingly write about their own objectivity.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've seen it all before. Remember when we were a bunch of tacky, uncultured upstarts? Unwashed masses? Unwanted peasante? Deja vu! Just wait until they want us to come bail them out again. They they'll be our best friends. “Really. We mean it this time. Honest and truly. Now and forever. Blah. Blah. Blah.” And hell, we'll probably save their sorry ungrateful bohunckuses again.
If it were not for us Americans, you Frenchmen would be Germans. And you Germans would be Russians.
Foul weather friends!
Hell, I feel the same way. And I'm a fourteenth generation American.
What a shock, a frog doesn't like us. I could care less what the frogs or any other euro-trash socialists think of us. How is it that they only find the dregs of the earth to interview in Europe when there are lots of Europeans that agree with us?
I will forward this to the graves at Normady.
And here's another one I love from right after 9-11, in case not everyone saw it back then.
Here's just a bit of it, from the British author of this piece at the UK Times:
'I am sick of my generation's whining ingratitude, its wilful, infantile loathing of the great, tumultuous, witty and infinitely clever nation that has so often saved us from ourselves. But I am heartened by something my 19- year-old daughter said: "America has always been magic to us, we don't understand why you lot hate it so much."'
Resurfacing? The Europeans have always disliked America and never bother to hide their resentment and their negative feelings toward us.
Who needs them! (notice this was not a question)
The only country that ever paid us back as far as I know is Finland, just a tiny place but they paid us back. hahahhaaa.....
Thanks John for the ping.
These countries would have critized us if we had done nothing ahout the attack on us too. It is a no win situtaion. America is better off just doing what President Bush said.... either for us or with the terrorists.
This is from a Francophone! He's got alot of nerve!
FOUL WEATHER FRIENDSAn Original Poem by the Savage Beast
When we liberated Paris
They showered us with flowers!
It was true love forever without end!
But as storm clouds subsided
And sunny skies abided
We couldn't get 'em on the friggin' phone!
Now they blow their nose at us
And sneer at us and cuss,
But wait until we have another rain.
Through the storm, as lightening hisses,
They will shower us with kisses
And love forever after once again.
Sorry for the rant on your excellent thread
Whatcha apologizing for? Your 'rant' was great, amigo.
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