09-14-2005, 03:47 PM
jahcs,Sep 14 2005, 09:29 AM Wrote:Because as the human animal with the capacity for reason we have to find the reason for everything. There has to be someone to blame for everything. Whether it's God, Mother Nature, The President, or some little rat in a lab coat we will find the truth! :)
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Truth is rather elusive. Maybe we can peel a different layer off of the onion. Given the consolidation of media organs, and who the managing directors are, I think the problem of "state controlled media" pale when compared to "aristocracy of the rich" controlled media. There are no moral, and no effective legal, safeguards against explicit falsehood. At least, not in America.
The ease with which the lie passes the lip is appalling at present, and the blitheness with which lies are not condemned moreso.
Slander and libel laws either need to be taken off the books for the farce that they are, or they need to be enforced with rigor.
Free speech and free press are only of any worth if the core assumption AND practice is that the free speech protected is truthful speech. Even uncomfortable, truthful speech, all you useless PC morons out there in the audience, should be protected, while the lie -- that is what a euphamism is, a lie -- of PC needs to lose any privileged status.
Sorry, I will leave you all for a few more days, I am just too mad right now. :(
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete