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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:10 PM
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31. Gee, he's ALWAYS "moving to silence media critics," yet the fascists just keep blabbing away
--on 90% of the public airwaves in Venezuela.

So, say he succeeds some day in getting a few fascist crap-talkers off the air? What's it to you? This is your concern for today--with health care in the US going down in flames, $6 BILLION in US military aid to Colombia--for what? for WHAT?--and seven new US military bases going into Colombia (about which we might ask: FOR WHAT?!), at a cost of more US taxpayerbillions? This is it, for you? Venezuela's trying to regulate its out-off-charts unbalanced, corpo/fascist 'news' monopoly use of the PUBLIC airwaves, is yours and CNN's big problem today?

Or is it just that CNN is "concerned," so we ALL should join the chorus of "DICTATOR! DICTATOR! DICTATOR!" in fear of CNN maybe some day--but I must be dreaming--getting its corpo/fascist face pushed in by the American people, when WE decide we've had enough and can't take it any more? Boo-hoo, I say!

Maybe that's it. We're supposed to support free speech for the rich, and only for the rich, and the poor getting chainsawed while alive, and their body parts thrown into mass graves, as they do in that US-created "model of democracy", Colombia?

I think the rich and the murderous have had quite enough "free speech" in both places, Venezuela and here. Time for the rest of us to have some "free speech." Take back the airwaves! Take back cable! And let them shout from the pavement at deaf leaders! See how far they get when they don't have the Big Trumpet we give them to scream their tiny minority elitist views 24/7 to the rest of us.

I'm all for free speech, ya know, and, hey, I'm old enough to almost remember what it was. Some obscure ancient idea rattling around somewhere in a back file, um, what was it? Something to do with...ah, yes, fairness!

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