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<P> <B><I>Thomas Seay <entheogens@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">--- Dennis Perrin <DPERRIN@COMCAST.NET>wrote:<BR>> Hopefully, when Tommy Franks is running the Ba'ath<BR>> Party apparatus, this<BR>> lesson in democracy will teach the Iraqis how to<BR>> speak about their leaders.<BR>> Freedom ain't free, y'know.<BR><BR>This is democratic free-market mccarthyism, isnt it?<BR>The "Dixie Chicks" were not going to be thrown in<BR>jail...the press was going to work their fans into a<BR>frenzy against them, thereby "democratically"<BR>blacklisting them. Self-righteous long-time fans would<BR>refuse to buy their records, attend their concerts; <BR>somebody would come up with a "cute" name for them<BR>like "the Dixie Traitors" and it would be repeated on<BR>the air ad infinitum. It's market forces...and the<BR>State would not have to lift a finger. This is the<BR>nature of mccarthyism today, if that's what we want to<BR>call it.<BR><BR>-Thomas<BR>
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