[Vision2020] Disturbing trends

[Jim Baillargeon]

As i read this, i notice it's not the government knocking on the door  &
stomping out  free speech, but private citizens either hearing, or
anticipating hearing, a lot more "free speech" in the form of  wallets
slamming shut in protest.  "Hanoi jane", 40 yrs later, is free, wealthy, &
still enjoying the right of free speech, but her career ended because
millions of others also enjoy free speech!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Disturbing trends


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> 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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