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Posted on 05/10/2010 5:45:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Free Speech: President Obama, while addressing college graduates, condemns our access to new media as a subversion of democracy. Is the iPad a threat to democracy or exactly what Thomas Jefferson had in mind?
At Hampton University in Virginia on Sunday, the president lamented that in an age of text messaging, the Internet and the iPad, information and its unfettered exchange had become a diversion that was putting a strain on democracy. We are not making this up.
The "24/7 media environment," he told the students, "bombards us with all kinds of comments and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter." Does that apply to presidential speeches as well? We never thought of free speech as a problem before, but apparently the president does.
"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a means of emancipation," Obama said. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
Perhaps it's easier these days to spread disinformation, but it's also easier to correct it. If the president doesn't know how to use these devices, how does he explain the June 26, 2008, issue of Rolling Stone noting that Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow and Jay-Z were featured on his, uh, iPod.
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He just wants to control what we hear, say and do. In short, he wants complete control.
That it establishes a nation whose government is a government based on law, a republic. That is what preserves individual liberty.
This is an excellent video clip explaining different forms of government. I learned more about that topic in the 10 minutes it takes to watch than all I was taught in public schools. It’s very concise.
Different forms of government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE
Yeah, let him take away this world of instant info and see how many youths vote for him next time.
The dictatorship has arrived. Giving power to doctrinaire leftists who believe their doctrine is the only one invites nothing else but tyranny. The idea that they are going to let us get back power or stop them willingly is absurd. Our side still hasn’t figured it out, the rules of civility in politics when out when they kicked us in the nuts politically.
George III probably felt the same way about pamphlets.
Yep, I’ve seen it. It is excellent. I stress individual liberty when talking to other people about the specialness of the American Constitution.
That is American laws are valuable only in as much as they work to preserve individual liberty.
That’s why I also stress the General Welfare Clause.
So, Obama displays hatred of mass communication, and Kagan is the perfect tool for him. [Will show what I mean in Monster Ping.]
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“I think he just told us to SHUT UP.”
He’s said as much before, getting the perps wrong:
It’s time for the people who created this mess to just SHUT UP and get out of the way and let us fix it...
Apparently forgetting that it was his party who made the mess (deliberately, so it could be fixed).
bump for freedom of speech...
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