From the "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" department.....

[tbyg52]

You're not gonna *believe* the editorial this idiot hung on the Siegelman blackout....

Is it too late to regain freedoms?

I couldn't help but laugh late Monday afternoon when I received an E-mail from the Alabama Democratic Party calling for the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to launch an inquiry into Huntsville's WHNT-TV Channel 19 and its supposed blackout of a "60 Minutes" segment regarding the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

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After my initial reaction I thought a little deeper and the party's reaction is scary. But it is nothing new. Such knee-jerk self-serving propaganda is common from both Democrats and Republicans when people in office are more concerned about reelection than serving the public.

Government, especially at the state and federal level, is way too involved in our lives. As a co-worker said last week, "I want the government to stay out of my life."

Think about it — just last week Alabama's Democratic Caucus announced it would support legislation to ban smoking in public places. I know that pleases most non-smokers, but the stance is more than about smoking. Most times these bans take away the rights of not only smokers but business owners, who foot the bills, to decide what goes on in their individual establishment.

More (it only gets more ridiculous):
http://www.thedailysentinel.com/story.lasso?ewcd=453021147aa1ef6f

[pleah]

1. Both parties are guilty of stripping our rights away. But, what amazes me is

how willing most people are to give up those rights. And on top of that any little controversy that
comes along is jumped on to keep us occupied and distracted from the real problems that are not being addressed.

(spelling correction)

[ixion]

2. keeping government out of our lives is NOT ridiculous

it is, in fact, the core premise of the Constitution of this country.

[Forrest Greene]

3. Drive The Interstates Much? n/t

[ixion]

4. yeah, I helped to pay for them

but that still doesn't give the government any right to involve themselves in my personal life.

[Forrest Greene]

5. Paying For 'Em Bug Ya Much? n/t

[ixion]

6. Not at all... however

paying for endless war, government wastes, privatized prisons and bogus law enforcement does.

[tbyg52]

7. Out of our personal lives, I agree

but this guy is starting from corporate censorship (the Siegelman blackout) and somehow getting to "government is intruding on the little people" from there...! That's what slayed me.

Of course, it *is* brought to you, it looks like, by the same kind of people who think legislating your sex life is perfectly OK, but reining in corporations is not.

[ixion]

8. yeah, I agree there is a logic leap there...

given that corporations are not individuals, there are many that could do with some regulation...we individuals would benefit from that, I believe.