[Vision2020] Disturbing trends

[Carl Westberg]

Last week, the president of the baseball Hall of Fame cancelled a planned 
15th anniversary celebration of the movie Bull Durham because he did not 
like the fact that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have spoken against the 
war.  Never mind the fact that, according to Robbins, all he planned on 
talking about was baseball and the making of the film.  He had no intention 
of saying anything about the war.  In today's Spokesman is a report that 
actress Janeane Garofalo's scheduled new television series may be doomed.  
She has spoken against the war and criticized President Bush, and the 
network appears to be folding to pressure to keep her show off the air, due 
to her audacity.  A couple of pages later in the same section is the story 
of Ed Gernon, the producer of the CBS miniseries "Hitler, The Rise of Evil." 
  After more than a decade with the company, he's been fired for statements 
he made regarding the project and President Bush.  His crime?  This quote:  
"It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately 
chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole world into war.  I 
can't think of a better time to examine this history than now."  And one of 
the presumed rights our troops are fighting for in Iraq is the freedom of 
speech.                                                                      
                                                                     Carl 
Westberg Jr.





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