[Vision2020] Disturbing trends

[Scott Dredge]

The government hasn't done anything to limit their
speech.  These people have said things that are
policitically unpopular and now they're paying a
price.  The same thing happened to Dr. Laura when she
made unpopular statements about homosexuals.

-Scott

--- Carl Westberg <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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