Saw this today on MSNBC. Apparently, more than a third of students in high school that were surveyed think that the government should have control over what newspapers print.
WHAT?
Isn't part of being a teenager being about rebellion and revolt and taking down the man? Since when have they turned around and wanted a bigger and sterner daddy to tell them what they can and can't say? I blame Hilary Duff and the Disney channel with their wholesome movies and family values...
I hereby call on the spirit of Russ Meyer to come down from his buxom leather-clad heaven and start setting torch to all things good and clean. I demand that the Lords of Acid start releasing their classics like "Darling Come Here and Fuck Me In The Rear". I order Lenny Bruce to ride a flaming black stallion out from the bowels of hell spewing epithets...
Seriously...
gah, what the fuck is this? Folks, those of you old enough to remember the Soviet Union remember what price the people who lived in the Eastern Bloc nations paid to speak their mind? Do you remember how people were shot, hung, and sent to Siberian gulags for writing words that their government did not approve of? Didn't we just send our military into two nations where people were oppressed by their leaders, WHERE PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE THE FREEDOM TO SPEAK?
And now, NOW, our children would have us enter freely into a world where our government would tell the press what it can and cannot say?
I said this before, and I'll say it again. We once lived in a world where rather than live under the yoke of Soviet rule, we were willing to blow up the world 100 times over. We promised those that would attack us and take away our freedoms that we would destroy them and ourselves before we would EVER subjigate ourselves...and now pfft...people are willingly putting the yoke and bridle on, and begging to be whipped.
It's enough to make me wish for days of the Cold War again, so at least what we stood for, what we fought far, stood out in sharp relief to the horror of lurking tyranny.
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