Freedom's just another name for nothing left to lose. --Kris Kristofferson
Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:--- Dennis Perrin wrote:
> Hopefully, when Tommy Franks is running the Ba'ath
> Party apparatus, this
> lesson in democracy will teach the Iraqis how to
> speak about their leaders.
> Freedom ain't free, y'know.
This is democratic free-market mccarthyism, isnt it? The "Dixie Chicks" were not going to be thrown in jail...the press was going to work their fans into a frenzy against them, thereby "democratically" blacklisting them. Self-righteous long-time fans would refuse to buy their records, attend their concerts; somebody would come up with a "cute" name for them like "the Dixie Traitors" and it would be repeated on the air ad infinitum. It's market forces...and the State would not have to lift a finger. This is the nature of mccarthyism today, if that's what we want to call it.
-Thomas
===== < eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>> -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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