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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Firing Imus was the right thing

Years of racist, sexist and anti-Semitic jokes took their toll, and MSNBC finally saw the light.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 08:35 AM

The VT Crises

You have finally come full circle with the larger problem. The shooting at VT is an example of the overall much larger problem. This is a copy of an email I sent Fox News.

This is now the last straw that must move the political law makers to amend the

freedom of speech rights in this country. Simply the freedom of speech

amendment should allow only legal expression of verbal speech and visual art.

This is not censorship but the responsibility of our country to allow all forms

as long as the expression falls into what the culture has determined as legal.

Killing is not legal, adultery, assault, prostitution and pornography are

examples of what is not legal etc.

You have the opportunity to make this the headlines and change the moral

compass of this country and the generations to come. This is why we have laws

and this will has and should effect all forms of entertainment and forms of

expression from this point on in our culture. All forms of illegal expression

should be removed from all stores and venues immediately.

This is our necessary action and responsibility to the freedoms that a

democracy should reflect and guard for the protection of all. Please forward

this to the President.

Thanks,

Obewan

We will still have all the freedoms and the protections...the only change is that it must be with the parameters of the written laws now on the books...makes sense to me!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 04:36 PM

Your Rights vs. My Rights

If it's my radio network, my FCC license and my money and you offend me -- you're off the air.

That isn't about your right to free expression. It's about mine.

Nowhere in the First Amendment is there anything about anyone having a right to make me pay to have them offend me, or that I am required provide a forum at my expense for opinions that differ from mine. Go talk to Pat Robertson about your right to preach Satanism on his network, and let me know how it goes.

Don Imus was shown to the street. He can offend anyone he wants to there. Anyone who wants to listen to him can find him there. He still has his rights.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 07:53 AM

Fist Amendment

Well..... just what does this amendment say:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

I see no protections....for visual art or expression of images that promote the breaking of our legal written laws....do you?

Obewan

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