I believe freedom of expression is more important than the wide dissemination of correct views.

You can be free to express your own views but 'views' are opinions. Opinions are very much clouded by the agenda that we operate under, the superstitions we have and our tolerance for the world.

You can't make up stuff and label them as facts and they teach them to students that are supposed to end up being productive members of society.

I can no more design my own money or obey my own laws then a religious school should be able to warp, intentionally, the minds of their charges.

But, hey. Imagine a land where the dissemination of incorrect views is valued more than respect for reality.

Hmmm. 'We are winning the war on Iraq.' 'Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.' 'I gave up golf for the troops.' 'Hamas is backing Obama.' 'I didn't say that I wanted the troops in Iraq for 100 years.' 'I'm a uniter, not a divider.' 'Fair and balanced.' 'The economy is looking up.' 'We've turned the corner.' (That last one is almost a quarterly performance from Washington DC)

Hmmm. Are the constant lies working? Apparently only on the 'poor and less educated' among us.

Interesting.

Shouldn't people expect less lies from religion? Shouldn't people expect the truth from politicians?

It's easier to lie. It's powerful to lie. It's wrong to knowingly lie and distort facts that are fed to children. Isn't the revulsion of facts what got us in the condition we're in right now?

I could not support or participate in the teaching of outrageous lies to children. That's just not right...

Criminally liable is a L-----O-----N-----G stretch however it does provide a new level of subjective boundaries to be met.

I remember getting 'TOS-ed' from AOL once. I did nothing wrong, to me. They got all 'you're a trouble maker' and that 'you are violating your TOS and we will take action' which was ludicrous as nothing happened but it was enough at that time to cause a reaction.

People *should* be honest and truthful in their entire lives but most of us wouldn't be able to handle the truth about ourselves so we live convenient lies to keep ourselves happy.

Some people live their whole lives as lies (Bush?) and some use their lies to punish or harm others. This group of people, these two, are the problem.

Sure I can think that I look like Brad Pitt and walk like John Wayne and am God's gift to women but to actually then go out and abduct women or something like that to 'prove' that I'm God's gift to women is where the lie hurts other people.

Thinking of the war dead over the 'proof' that Saddam was a 'bad man' that indisputably had weapons of mass destruction and later proved to have none should be just as actionable as Mrs Drew and her employees(?) that aided and abetted this disgusting charade that resulted in a young girl killing herself.

Requiring people to be honest on the internets (the tubes) is as likely as me being king of the world, but being held accountable for your lies that hurt other people SHOULD be actionable.

'Free speech' isn't free (It doesn't cover *everything*) and your rights stop at my nose. THOSE are the values I think that the constitution puts forth.

Posing as someone else to get something of value is illegal in 'three space' so the same thing should be illegal in the internet's warped space. (Hell, how many young girls on AOL are really young girls? How many 'beautiful bikini models' on Match.com are really bikini models)

Ok, so she can't win and she pulls out the sexism card.

Desperate? Yes.

Could sexism play a part in her not winning? Well, she is a woman. Potentially, yes. I'm sure there are people out there that will not under any circumstance vote for a woman president.

It's also possible that people just don't like her. Is that sexist? As a matter of fact, isn't it sexist to start lobbing the sexist grenade around now that her campaign looks like it's on its last legs? Uh huh. Yep.

I wonder if one of the subjects of Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia was for their help in planning another 'September surprise'.

The oil talks failed. What else did he go there for help on?

I guess we wait and see.

With Rumsfeld saying that another 'attack' could save them, is another one in the works. Playing off it would be risky but with democratic 'leaders' like Hoyer, Reid and Pelosi and the democratic stand against retroactive immunity in the telecom FISA bill, the stage seems to be set for the aftermath of another of what should be yet another humiliating attack under republican leadership turning into a masterstroke for the Rove driven republican clown car.

If Rove can pull that off he deserves a raise, and shackles...

I wonder if one of the subjects of Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia was for their help in planning another 'September surprise'.

The oil talks failed. What else did he go there for help on?

I guess we wait and see.

With Rumsfeld saying that another 'attack' could save them, is another one in the works. Playing off it would be risky but with democratic 'leaders' like Hoyer, Reid and Pelosi and the democratic stand against retroactive immunity in the telecom FISA bill, the stage seems to be set for the aftermath of another of what should be yet another humiliating attack under republican leadership turning into a masterstroke for the Rove driven republican clown car.

If Rove can pull that off he deserves a raise, and shackles...

Now that everyone is confessing, will anything change?

Hope springs eternal...