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At 08:17 AM 7/6/01 -0400, Steve Suranie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>> censorship - Please provide a reference of where you have been personally
>> censored by the government.
>>
You are one naive puppy,
If you don't know anything and have nothing important to say, there is no
censorship.
It's only those who are able to say things that influence people that are
censored.
I have been personally censored by "the government" in many different ways:
National Security Act restrictions, retribution by a government employer
for a letter to the
editor, restrictions on what may be said or discussed at public meetings like
school board meetings, restrictions on what may be said or written "in the work
place" to avoid creating a "hostile work environment", tax penalties for
publishing
a newspaper that is "political", prohibitions of "endorsements" of
candidates in
primary elections in a political newspaper, prohibitions in printing the
"party affiliation" of
candidates in elections, etc, etc.
In my opinion, public education is a form of government censorship. I want
my children
to learn and read certain things, I want them to NOT learn or be exposed
to other things.
The government school authorities, prohibit the communication of things to
my children that
I desire to be communicated to them. The government school authorities
WOULD -- if I left it to them --
tell my children things that are defamatory about their heritage, their
religion, their culture, their
values, or their ethnicity,
One of many examples: an aquaintance of mine was the editor of a chain of
neighborhood newspapers. During a city council election, his boss, the
publisher
got a call from the mayor. "We want you to endorse candidate X". The
newspaper
chain had no intention of endorsing candidate X.
"If you don't endorse candidate X, the city will not run any of the city's
official
announcements in your newspaper," said the mayor.
The newspaper unwillingly endorsed candidate X, and withheld news coverage of
candidate "Y".
It happens at the local level, it happens at the state level, it happens at
the federal
level.
Rich people buy newspaper chains because they want to control the news and
put their puppet candidates in office. They don't buy newspaper chains or TV
stations because, out of the goodness of their heart, they want YOU to
have complete
and unbiased news
The New York Times and the Washington Post (the "semi-official" government
newspapers of America)
don't want you to know "the truth", they want you to support the candidates
and policies that
they tell you about.
DBC
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