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Skriven 2006-09-11 21:26:00 av Robert E Starr JR (8596.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: ABC backs down on 9/1
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On 9/9/06 5:59 PM, "Amy Guskin" wrote:


> 
> It's not a free speech issue.  Free speech has always been constrained.
> You're not allowed to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, or "Bomb!" in an
> airport.  This is closer to allowing Holocaust deniers to continue to peddle
> their lies under the guise of "scholarship."
> 
> Amy
> 


I don't know that this rises to the same level of speech as yelling "Fire"
in a crowded theater.

Nevertheless, it's sad that people are so eager to believe this sort of
stuff without checking it out for themselves.

There's another film from last year, a documentary called "Why We Fight"
that would be a much better use of time than watching the ABC miniseries.

http://www.citybeat.com/2006-09-06/film.shtml

I especially liked the comment in this interview from the film's director,
Eugene Jarecki:


"CB: In your DVD commentary track..., you talk about certain aspects of our
system being broken."

"EJ: This might be surprising given my movie, but I'm an eternal optimist.
It's breaking, but I don't think anything is broken. There have been darker
chapters throughout human history. Ultimately, I have an enormous amount of
faith in people. It has been the people themselves who, as they have become
dissatisfied and disillusioned, sought answers better than the prevailing
ones at the time. I have no lack of confidence in the American people. The
people of America have, in many ways, been hapless victims of a system that
is shifting around them. They just haven't had the chance to realize it yet.
Now why the American people haven't realized it I think has a large part to
do with particular qualities in modern life. I think modern life, which is
something unprecedented for human beings, is such a whirlwind of technology
-- from cell phones to computers to automobiles to so many new forms of
stimuli. Americans are very much caught up in a life that's very hard to
take a breath and take the kind of necessary time to reflect on the state of
things, which are becoming more complex by the day."

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