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There's internet culture for you. OH WOW GET THIS ON YOO TOOB DOOD!
I can see a case for some serious intervention there. :doh:
There's internet culture for you. OH WOW GET THIS ON YOO TOOB DOOD!
We did ourselves a great disservice by allowing Ronald Reagan to abolish the FCC Fairness Doctrine, which was unanimously ruled as constitutional (Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395 U.S. 367, 1969).
If we had a mass movement I would submit the very first demand we should make would be reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, and find a way to extend it to cable and internet broadcasting as well. "But you're just trying to silence Rush/Bill/Shaun/Glenn/Rachel/Keith!" people will scream, depending on their point of view. Well, yes, yes I am. They are all part of the problem and they all need to just shut the hell up.
True, and I absolutely agree that the current system is a big part of the problem. What I'm suggesting is nothing short of a revolution, an actual revolution just like the one that started the country in the first place. Tear up that whole section of the Constitution and start over again. It's not the inspired word of God, it's a document thrashed out two hundred-odd years ago by a bunch of men who did the best they could under the circumstances, but had no way of knowing how things would eventually work out. The Founding Fathers were not gods, and God didn't guide their hands.
I hear in free speech the voice of Publius. And the more the merrier. Better free speech protected by the Constitution
than a stillness that sounded by Stalin and echoes with Putin.
Gladstone was correct-the American Constitution is the finest work struck by the mind of men.
Of course the Founders were not gods, nor did they ever claim divine status. But thank God that they existed.
And that the Constitution lives today.
Agreed. And don't forget the Bill of Rights.
Of course the Founders were not gods, nor did they ever claim divine status. But thank God that they existed.
And that the Constitution lives today.
Ok, now that we arent talking about politics anymore I guess I can comment. This *is* disgusting and appears to be a situation where the bystanders really may have wanted to see the beating. Its probable that they were shocked, but still I think some part of them wanted to see the beating. I think we’ve become desensitized as a culture to violence. Question is….why?Time to get back to real world examples of the Decline:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...aught-video-warning-graphic-article-1.2145599
This happens and no one lifts a finger. Absolutely savage and disgusting. :doh:
As for the Fairness Doctrine, it wasn't rejected on grounds of Constitutionality.
The revolution should not involve tearing up the Constitution but going back to the original document without all the garbage attached to it. Start over from the beginning.
Quite the contrary. It was upheld, as I noted, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395 U.S. 367 (1969). The decision was 8-0: Douglas did not participate in the opinion, but it's doubtful that he would have dissented. Claims that the Fairness Doctrine was an affront to the First Amendment thus are patently without merit.
People can be selfish. It *is* the me generation. We have no concept of honor anymore. We’re self absorbed. Perhaps it can partially be attributed to the prevalence of the cell phones, tablets, I don’t know. I think the entertainment industry has played its part along with poor parenting. And a lot of folks came from bad backgrounds, broken homes. Really bad situations. These people might try to take it out on others. But I’ll bet you almost anything if we were to be able to look into the assailant’s background, we’d find that they just weren’t taught the concept of honor or how to show respect for others. You know, there’s just nothing honorable about beating up on a 15 year old kid.
Start with the principle that we are not to commit combat military forces absent a declaration of war, a power reserved to Congress and last exercised against Italy and Germany in 1941.
The Founders likewise did not believe in maintaining a standing army: that ideal was jettisoned as soon as those pesky Seminoles (the tribes, not the college football team) became a force to be reckoned with. Thus began our problems with the military industrial complex.
Who here can say, definitively, and with a minimum of macho chest-pounding, what they would do in such a situation. Who here has *been* in such a situation and can positively know for sure what they'd do?
Good for you. Fortunately for all that you could get close enough to do that. But what happens when you're on the edge of the crowd? Is it OK to wait for someone else to stick out that foot?
Unfortunately, though, there are many today who do view them as gods in everything but name, and view their work as something handed down from Sinai on stone tablets engraved by the hand of the Great I Am Himself. Such ones are the High Priests of the cult of the Golden Calf. And you don't have to look far to find them.
Theologically speaking, paganism is alive and well.
However, strict construction tethers law to the document itself; disallowing the introduction of inane constitutional penumbra.
And the work of the actual drafting of the Constitution is reflected in The Federalist Papers penned by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay,
long held as the primary source for discerning original intent.
If you can do something to prevent a bad thing from happening then you should. It is that old axiom: "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."