AOL deciding what its users can write
about makes about as much sense as
the company that manufactures paper telling you what you can write on
it, or Intel telling you what data your PC can compute. We all know what
the acronym AOL stands for, and this merely proves it. That company
still makes me gag. As for freedom of thought and the right to express
ANY sentiments or ideas, well that is what "freedom of speech" means.
In
these days of the politically correct hordes telling us all what we can
think, freedom of thought and speech is a more endangered species than a
Siberian tiger in a forest about to be clear cut by greedy loggers. If
Tim May is a "gassy, racist old fool" [gee since when was it OK for
the
politically correct bozos to attack some one for mental deficiencies
[sic] or their age?], well, I support the idea that AOL leadership is a
gang of Fascist scum if they stand opposed to freedom of speech.
Seriously, it is a sad day when you can't ask whether an Orthodox Jew is
a wise pick for president of the USA? Would there be a conflict between
his Judaism and the interests of the United States when Israel was at
stake? Would his being effectively "out of service" during his
religious
holy days conflict with his responsibilities if he became president?
Even asking these questions will get you labeled a "racist" and an
"anti-Semite". The last time Americans made the huge mistake of
electing
a religious zealot to office was Jimmy Carter. Remember what his kind
and tolerant thoughts brought us? Calling anybody a "gassy, racist old
fool" sounds perilously close to hate speech to me. Of course the
difference is that we all have our own ideas about what we should be
allowed to hate from traitors, to child molesters, and those who would
limit freedom of speech. May we always be able to express what we think,
no matter how repulsive or terrible it may sound to others. Freedom of
speech allows us to hang ourselves with our own rope. That's justice,
not a gang of fools who run an ISP and think that gives them the right
to censorship. Makes even less sense than Ma Bell telling you what you
can say on the phone. We need total freedom of speech in email and other
Internet or electronic communications added to the "Bill of Rights".
Please disagree with me, if you do, while you still have the right to.
At least that gives me the opportunity to change my mind if you have a
better argument, or to convince me you are wrong, if you don't.
You can see fear has already taken hold when "Anonymous" thinks he no
longer can express him/her/itself and sign their name to it. Or is it
just they are embarrassed by their own odious beliefs?
Tom Roach
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