Posted on 02/19/2022 6:41:54 PM PST by jcon40
........... And what shall we say criminality as such? Legal frames, especially in the United States, are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved leniency with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorist's civil rights. There are many such cases.
Such a tilt of freedom in the direction of evil has come about gradually, but it was evidently born primarily out of a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which there is no evil inherent to human nature. The world belongs to mankind and all the defects of life are caused by wrong social systems, which must be corrected. Strangely enough, though the best social conditions have been achieved in the West, there still is criminality and there even is considerably more of it than in the pauper and lawless Soviet society.
The press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press to include all media.) But what sort of use does it make of this freedom?
Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter of the law. There is no true moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist or a newspaper have to his readers, or to his history -- or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanrhetoric.com ...
He died in Russia a few years after the West had discarded him.
Some talk of people rolling over in their grave.
Hardly the case here if he were here witnessing us today.
He warned us.
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THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE WEB SITE!
https://www.americanrhetoric.com claims to be “an Online Speech Bank”, but much more is archived or linked there!
I just discovered the archives of Donald Trump’s presidency, including the National Security Strategy document, that I had been looking for (after losing my copy). So much more is included here, it is astonishing. I now have a lot more to listen to on the road!
Thank you for linking this web site here!
Yeah it’s a great site. Hope you took the time to read Solsenitsen’s speech.
Thx
Of course, otherwise I would have passed on it. I am happy to have this site now.
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