[Vision2020] Disturbing trends

[Ted Moffett]

Carl etc.

I agree this is disturbing.  And what is also disturbing is that people 
think these sorts of attacks on individuals, just for their expression of 
their political views, can be justified by some sort of economic libertarian 
argument.  Joe McCarthy will not be required to harass and ruin these 
people, thus scaring many citizens away from speaking their mind.  The 
American corporate world, coupled with the blind "patriotism" of people, who 
are trampling on the tolerance of political speech that is critical for 
democracy to exist, will do it for us!

Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," one of the few discussion shows on TV 
that had any semblance of open, uncensored exchange, was canned because of 
statements he made that did not conform to the current "Correctthink" of the 
"Project for a New American Century" and others who follow this mentality.  
We are all the worse for this.

Ted

>From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Disturbing trends
>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:27:16 -0700
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>Last week, the president of the baseball Hall of Fame cancelled a planned 
>15th anniversary celebration of the movie Bull Durham because he did not 
>like the fact that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have spoken against the 
>war.  Never mind the fact that, according to Robbins, all he planned on 
>talking about was baseball and the making of the film.  He had no intention 
>of saying anything about the war.  In today's Spokesman is a report that 
>actress Janeane Garofalo's scheduled new television series may be doomed.  
>She has spoken against the war and criticized President Bush, and the 
>network appears to be folding to pressure to keep her show off the air, due 
>to her audacity.  A couple of pages later in the same section is the story 
>of Ed Gernon, the producer of the CBS miniseries "Hitler, The Rise of 
>Evil."  After more than a decade with the company, he's been fired for 
>statements he made regarding the project and President Bush.  His crime?  
>This quote:  "It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, 
>who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole 
>world into war.  I can't think of a better time to examine this history 
>than now."  And one of the presumed rights our troops are fighting for in 
>Iraq is the freedom of speech.                                              
>                                                                            
>                  Carl Westberg Jr.
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