[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:45:33 -0500
The Iranians/Syrians apparently orchestrated the rioting. Imagine what
they could do with an invasion.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/10/2006 11:38:52 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
>
> > I don't quite understand this point: the "free
> > speech" defence of publishing the cartoons is in fact
> > a very US one.
>
> The US press response has been "we don't want to offend the Arabs". Of
some 5,000
> newspapers, only four or five minor papers have printed the cartoons.
None of the major
> papers have printed them.
>
> As for "free speech" in the US press, that's a joke. We have a
monoculture in the press.
> None of the significant papers raised any issues about the illegality or
lack of evidence
> for the invasion of Iraq. The US government is extremely corrupt and
incompetent, yet you
> barely read about that. The US press has been cowed into submission.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
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