Posted on 01/01/2011 6:27:02 AM PST by marktwain
The only real problem that liberals have with the constitution is that, it set up government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.
The European Constitution
65 pages of single-spaced gobbledygook. All good intentions and impossible implementation.
Because then it won't apply to the Internet. Or TV.
Or for that matter the parts of the print media that don't use printing presses.
This twaddle is quite easy to debunk when you take into consideration that the Constitution itself is based on politics and ethics from the Romans and Greeks over 2000 years past.
I have over the years read many “arguments” along such lines emanating from the left - even to the point of claiming that the National Guard = a militia, but since the government itself provides arms, there is no “need” for a citizen’s right to possess firearms.
I understand and accept your observations as completely valid. Unfortunately, the left views such historical precedents as completely extraneous and irrelevant to their agenda.
The government claims some sort of right to require "truth in advertising" ~ that is, commercial speech, or press, is not free.
Justice Thomas is currently the ONLY justice on the USSC who believes that freedom of speech and press should apply to commercial speech.
I agree with him.
Makes me feel like I'm living in a Fascist Dictatorship too! (BTW, that comes from years of regulating commercial speech ~ the angst of the state censor. People who don't agree with me on this issue do not, of course, love their own children.)
Cable TV is not subject to state oppression ~ when it comes to content, but the current FCC Fascist in Chief wants to get around to that and make you watch NOT FOX LEFTWINGARD ALL THE TIME network ~ he's even got a Commie Surname!
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