Re: China and DeLay
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > How many people does this effect? For example, what percentage of the > people in the US get a freer (or, shall we say, more critical of the > government, or more "honest") press compared to people in China? Anyone willing to go for that kind of press? Really, Dre, you know as well as I do there are publications critical of the government. There are literally thousands of papers, magazines, and so forth published in the United States. While I read a select few, there is nothing stopping anyone from reading something different. Or starting there own paper. That's a far cry from taking away freedom of the press. The fact that the majority of the press is moderately liberal and not far off to the left should be seen as a sign that most readers won't buy a paper that is more than moderately liberal. That doesn't mean one can't exist. > Sure, in China you go to "re-education" camps for calling for the overthrow > of the government. But what paper in the US does that? None I have ever > seen. Close enough, some editoralists have called for the impeachment of Bush. Try doing that in China. > I just don't see the difference in as stark a terms as the propaganda > portrays it, and in fact I see China liberalizing and the US becoming > fascist and if the trends continue it would not greatly surprise if in > 10-20 years that China is more free than the US. Proof, please. Besides the PATRIOT Act, show me something. The USAPA will probably be never be renewed without major reforms, so that doesn't help. -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+30LGK37Cns9gJ0gRAqFsAJ94jZmEFVwPqSAjcXk4Q781VwLHvgCgkDVV aL8tNgIRKY6Flxmo31faPik= =WUfJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.