Arlo: Platt would have you believe that suddenly, with Obama's presidency, the "censors" are just appearing. The truth is that they've been around for ages, strengthened and vocal during the Reagan years, carried strongly by the right's love-affair with radical christianity and xenophobia, and witnessed under every government as far back as one can go. It is not a "leftist" problem, and pretending it is is more dangerous than the censorship itself.
Andre: Thank you for this excellent post Arlo. To extend your observation that censors have been around for ages, how about Aristotle killing off the "path to Quality' Phaedrus and the Sophists were teaching (in the name of Truth) and of course the destructive role of the Church throughout history (in the name of God). Don't worry, I am getting to know Platt and Ham...they have their 'digs' and I had my, tongue-in-cheeck dig at them. (by the way,. I do this rarely on this Discuss... taking most of the ideas very seriously) Thanks again, Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
