> This is not a helpful analogy. Let's say a significant section of the > American army began to read the Militant (I know this sounds ridiculous, > but I can't get Vincent Bugliosi's new book "proving" that Lee Harvey > Oswald was a socialist because he read the Militant out of my mind). And > then they seized the White House in a coup that was coordinated with the > Militant, nobody would question the right of the state to close down the > Militant and to jail the rebels. In fact, that is what happened to > Chavez (and Castro). By contrast, the RCTV went unpunished. And now they > have lost their access to the airwaves, although they can still use > cable. This is not exactly what I would call repression. > >
Fair enough, but that requires proof that they played a similar role as the bizarro version of The Militant did in your example, which in turn would be a lot more solid ground to strip a single company of license about than simply "undermining the government" and the like. That's all I meant to say - I don't really have an opinion about the decision itself either way. Matthijs Krul
