Posted on 01/25/2006 3:59:15 AM PST by saveliberty
| TAKING LIBERTIES Shut Up, They Explained The left's regulatory war against free speech. BY BRIAN C. ANDERSON Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST The rise of alternative media--political talk radio in the 1980s, cable news in the '90s, and the blogosphere in the new millennium--has broken the liberal monopoly over news and opinion outlets. The left understands acutely the implications of this revolution, blaming much of the Democratic Party's current electoral trouble on the influence of the new media's vigorous conservative voices. Instead of fighting back with ideas, however, today's liberals quietly, relentlessly and illiberally are working to smother this flourishing universe of political discourse under a tangle of campaign-finance and media regulations. Their campaign represents the most sustained attack on free political speech in the United States since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. Though Republicans have the most to lose in the short run, all Americans who care about our most fundamental rights and the civic health of our democracy need to understand what's going on--and resist it. |
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See? That's why it's not capitalism as people are not for sale. A person has ownership of his or her services and enters into a contract freely. Or declines the contract.
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I hate to break the news to you. From their viewpoint, we are not people. We do not rate that high.
The Soros' of this world see us as livestock that individually cannot be sold, but the herd can be--right along with the company.
They are the elite. No one with a net worth under 10 figures need apply.
There are a few trick ponies, to be sure, and prized pets, but they are ultimately expendable if they get too uppity.
Why not manage the population by inciting conflict, legalizing and promoting abortion?
Enslave them by dumbing them down, distract them with baubles, shackle them with credit, and remember the all important Roman lesson: give them their bread and circuses, but make them work for them so they think they are free.
Sell you fifty--no a hundred--no two hundred flavors of dreck on your TV--and you work for it!! Whatta deal!
And then use it to tell you how 'free' you are.
I am just trying to get a grip on the arrogance of the minds that would perpetrate this crap on us.
From our viewpoint, of course, it is a feudalistic system--because they'd consider all of us serfs. Among themselves, though, it's all about the money.
We are in agreement. The only distinction is that I don't worry as much about what they think as they are their own worst enemies. And we are free, which unnerves them no end.
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It not only unnerves them, it scares the Hell out of them. (8^D)
Understanding your enemy is never a wasted past time, it exposes their weaknesses and their strengths. You can exploit the one and avoid the other that way.
:-) Oh I read and understand my enemy. I just don't take on their problems as mine.
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