Comments on: TCS Columnist attacks blogs: blogs may soon make many Americans afraid to speak their minds

By: Esquire

Esquire — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:42:06 +0000

I wish someone would spell out our beloved US Constitution and remind us all that we are “The” Nation that has “The” Constitution that if followed would free the human race from destruction and misery!
Having said that, I wish we are able to rise up to occasions and learn to understand and forgive, rather than point fingers towards others blaming them for miseries we end up in, due to our own wrong choices and decisions.
Fellow nationals and citizens! Our Constitution is as perfect as it can be, but we are just human! We can only try!
Mistakes are made by everyone, and no one person’s decision matters. No one can dictate Americans! So let us not give this wrong impression that any “One”person or “Group” is responsible for trying to take our rights and freedoms from us!
The Constitution does not just mention rights and freedom. Along with that it also very clearly states our responsibilities as citizens !
There are always two sides to a story! Enough of the common blame ” The captain is wrong!” It is time for us to ask of our selves, “Where did we as a society go wrong?”
I say, that we all should give back the confidence and trust to our Captain that we took away from him!
The American dream “is the US Constitution” and folks it still exists! The question is, “Has this dream been most precious to us all? More precious than a few more bucks adding to our profits?”
Little House on the Prairie is a TV series based on the American dream ! The American way! Does the story show all it’s characters as perfect women and men? No. They are shown as simple human beings at times making wrong decisions, but these simple humans are actually “Great Men and women”! Mistakes are made because they are human! Greatness in them is realizing their faults and overcoming them! Trying as best as they possibly can to do what is right, is what makes them great women and men!
So where did we go wrong, and why is “Little House on the Prairie” just a TV show and no longer a true replica of our own lives anymore?
I say, let us all unite and stand firm behind our Captain that we have chosen with our votes. Make him feel that we have full confidence and trust in him to serve the people of the greatest nation towards success! Our Captain too is our fellow citizen, have the same dream !
He stands alone today against demons in human disguise that hate what America stands for!
As Americans we have a right to defend our families, our freedom from bastards that hate our existence!
As a true american our Captain did what he was called to do! and now all we have to do is stop this bitching and blaming. This is exactly what the enemies that hate us want!
Remember that in the past, nations fell because they started blaming each other, rather than unite.
God Bless our Pesident ! God Bless America !
Respectfully,
Esquire.

By: WOLves

WOLves — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:56:39 +0000

Chilling Effect – Huh?
In this piece at Tech Central station, Jim Miller wonders if soon everybody will be afraid to talk about anything for fear of being savaged by those horrid bloggers. In the cases he brings up, these are not ordinary people having mundane conversations …

By: Myopic Zeal

Myopic Zeal — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:48:55 +0000

Bertrand Pecquerie Accues Bloggers of McCarthyism
Director of the World Editors Forum, Bertrand Pecquerie posts in the Editors Web Log here (note, emphasis is his, not mine):

Sad conclusion in the Eason Jordan affair … sad day for the freedom of expression in America and sad day again for the fut…

By: Matthias

Matthias — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:07:08 +0000

In the first couple lines, you’re trying to attack the messenger instead of
the message. Doesn’t sit well with me. Who cares about Miller’s
three-year-old predictions? Everybody makes predictions, and history
inevitably proves most of them wrong. Irrelevant. And “scaremongering” is
an empty soundbite.

The way I read it, he asks for more tolerance and less hate-mongering.
What’s wrong with that? It has nothing whatsoever to do with your
clichÃ©-dropped communism, fascism, and macho-ism.

In fact, Miller’s text is a fairly traditional “critique of the critique”
piece. Your aggressive attack just serves to illustrates his point.

Granted: If people royally fuck up, hold them accountable. But try to keep
things in perspective, and try to apply some common sense, too. By your
extreme rules, every public figure (and the not-so-public-ones too) who
speaks his/her mind should rot in hell. That just doesn’t make sense. Not in
a society where free speech is so valued.