tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post3868403744336473929..comments2023-10-03T09:00:22.747-04:00Comments on INSIGHT on Freedom: Democrats Ready to Muzzle Free Speech With the Resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine!Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-4110825658327159622007-05-17T12:00:00.000-04:002007-05-17T12:00:00.000-04:00I just think you and Douglas have it backwards; ev...I just think you and Douglas have it backwards; everything on the MSM had to be run past the Whitehouse first. It is a scam and a crock. No one covers the Daily anti-war pro peace demonstrations in this country, no one covered the hunger strike at Harvard by the students in support of the security workers, no one covers the police arrest members of a group (Critical Mass) who did nothing more than ride a bicycles through New York or the police investigation and rounding up of protestors at the RNC, it is a police (fascist) state. I don't understand how Americans can be silent when peoples' rights are being destroyed. If you disagree with what the government is doing, now more than ever you are told to "Shut up were at war". Well being at war is the worse reason to suspend liberties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-38436292965552912092007-05-17T11:44:00.000-04:002007-05-17T11:44:00.000-04:00Frank, you asked where I had been.... I have been ...Frank, you asked where I had been.... I have been right in the middle of it! For near onto 30 years I did radio commentaries, five days a week, and allowed, anyone who wished, time to rebut me. That's also why there are comments on this site. I allow anyone to comment so long as they are civl and respectful with their remarks. <BR/><BR/>Look, here is the thing I don't think you folks on the left understand: As long as people are allowed to voice their criticism of government openly, and freely, it acts as an esczpe valve for the anger which naturally builds within people who feel oppressed. If that safety valve is turned off... that pressure builds and soon, there will be an uprising of the people... or... the government protects itself by creating a "police state". We see that all over the world in Marxist countries, especially.<BR/><BR/> If the Fairness Doctrine was indeed fair, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I have worked with it and have direct day to day experience with it, and how it smothers free and open speech... and I KNOW, from experience, it will absolutely kill the free exchange of ideas on the broadcast media in this country. <BR/><BR/>Son, if you think freedom of speech is threatened now, under the Bush Administration... just wait 'til the next Clinton Adminstration! When she gets through purging the FCC commisioners you are not going to recognise the broadcast industry in this country! <BR/><BR/>Best regards,<BR/><BR/>LongstreetLongstreethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-46057680444155522782007-05-17T10:44:00.000-04:002007-05-17T10:44:00.000-04:00free speech is your right, as long as you agree wi...free speech is your right, as long as you agree with the left. They wish to completely silence any dissenting opinion, which is essentially those that subscribe to conservative thought, Christianity, or common sense.Douglas V. Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09388639848567082980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-43674165828830653462007-05-17T08:29:00.000-04:002007-05-17T08:29:00.000-04:00Where have you been? Free speech is dead, thanks i...Where have you been? Free speech is dead, thanks in part to the cowards who gave up freedom for security after 911... Free speech zones, protestors being arrested and harassed by the "keepers of the status quo", the police for those of you in Reolinda. A woman for the peace group "Code Pink" was thrown out of a GOP rally for wearing a shirt. A man was not allowed to fly for wearing a shirt that said "peace" on the front of it. What a crock, free speech has been dead. The FCC under the fascist leader Bush has been passing things and the GOP in Congress has helped push back net neutrality regulations to favor big contributors, public access TV has been under attack targeting must carry laws, remember the airwaves belong to "We the people". The merging of all the media outlets that has been allowed to go on is a sin against Democracy, with fewer and fewer outlets we are fed a lopsided, corporate view of what is going on. Sorry Sir you can pin this growth of corporate/government power on the Democrats. All views deserve equal time, not just yours or mine sir.... Information, real information is the key to safeguarding democracy. Where were all the journalists questioning the reasons for going into Iraq before the war? Where were the news stories about Iraq not having WMD, or even not possibly linked to 911 before the war? Our media is a tool for big corporations and big government, where the heck have you been? And then there are the groups that think money equals speech, not logical, how can someone with more money have more speech than someone else just because of their money?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com