[Vision2020] Cartoons

[g. crabtree]

Ms. Smith, Considering the media coverage for folks like Cindy Sheehan and 
Michael Moore among others, could you please explain how the current 
administration is limiting free speech in the US? I hope this wont qualify 
(or confirm) me  for "up in the night" status. Perhaps I'll create a new 
category of up too early in the morning.

gc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <debismith at moscow.com>
To: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Cartoons


>I  wonder if the "they" Pat referred to as trying to "take it away from us" 
>might have been the
> current administration? That's the only folks I see limiting free speech 
> in the US at this time...
> Perhaps Pat has had a change of perspective?
>
> I really am trying to give the benefit of the doubt to those v2020 
> opinionaters I have often
> thought were (to quote my Mom) "up in the night". :)
>
> Debi R-S
>
>
>
> Date sent:      Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:22:06 -0800
> From:           Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
> To:             Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com>
> Subject:        Re: [Vision2020] Cartoons
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> On 2/4/06, Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:
>>
>> I understand religion I just enjoy living in a country where we have free
>> press among other things. And I am not going to sit idly by while they 
>> try
>> to take it away from us. It is going to be interesting to see what Europe
>> does with this.
>
> Pat --
>
> How are they "trying to take it away from us"? In what sense do
> Muslims in foreign countries have the capacity to take our free press
> away from us? You've got a tendency to treat Osama bin Landen as
> though he's landing transport ships in New York, not dying of kidney
> failure in a hole in Afghanistan. The fundamentalist protest against
> political cartoons in Denmark is pathetic -- and only dangerous to the
> people in Danish embassies in Muslim countries.
>
> -- ACS
>
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