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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Journalism is not interfearing with an arrest

I am happy that a Texas Jury clears Galveston news photographer of interfering with police during arrest. I understand that cops need some level of control to make an arrest, but that is not the level of a police state.

I just worry that he would have not been cleared if he was a regular person or blogger. I know that the press are spelled out as special under the First Amendment. I just to hate to think I might be not be cleared since I do not work for a newspaper.

Labels: First Amendment, freedom of press, freedom of speech, legal system

- Rich, 7:26 PM

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Take that FCC

I am happy to hear the The Courts Rebuff the FCC on Indecency. I am one of the people who things the FCC can only regulate the airwaves because they are a public resource. They should not be regulating the content on cable. They can be regulating other parts of the cable business, like the monopoly aspect or technical aspects. I think that the first amendment should apply to cable content.

“We are very pleased with the court’s decision and continue to believe that the government regulation of content serves no purpose other than to chill artistic expression in violation of the First Amendment,” said Scott Grogin, a senior vice president at Fox. “Viewers should be allowed to determine for themselves and their families, through the many parental control technologies available, what is appropriate viewing for their home.”

I am tired of people saying that television has to be made safe for their children. I do not want to make the world child safe. If you do not want your children to see these things, you have choices. Do not limit my choices because you want to limit when television shows air. This is what I think the true small government republican stance should be.

Labels: business, FCC, freedom of speech, government, indecency

- Rich, 10:27 PM

Thursday, April 19, 2007

No sympathy

It seems that a student in Colorado was arrested for comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech. Wow! That just shocks me. Now sympathizing is enough to get arrested. Even if the guy was angry, it is not illegal to be angry.

I will admit that I have some sympathy for the gunman. I was an outsider in college. I knew enough people who did not have it all together. But for the grace of God go I. My brain worked correctly when I had dangerous thoughts. I had the brain chemistry to pull myself back from the edge.

I would never kill anyone. That does not mean that I have never been discussed with American Society. I do not know what that guy in Colorado said but to think no one could understand Cho Seung Hui it just dreaming. To ask no one to say think understand him is just putting on rose colored glasses. Cho Seung Hui was not a monster, he was a human. His darkness is in many of us.

Labels: arrest, freedom of speech, law, shooting, speech, Virginia Tech

- Rich, 7:45 PM

Monday, February 26, 2007

Don't Jail Bloggers

The story of the Egyptian Blogger getting jail time is very disturbing to me. Freedom of speech and freedom of press is the most important freedom to me. I understand that laws are different in different places. I understand not every culture is like my culture. I can see why people want their rules to fit where they live in the world.

My problem is I think speech is the most important thing in the world. Speech is the basis of thought. What is free will without free speech? It is meaningless without free speech. There is no other way I can put it. It is more important than I can even say.

I am not sure what I can do to change what happened in Egypt. I need to do something. It does not look like this situation is about to change right now. I am not even sure what our government could do to help him out. It is important to try.

Labels: blog, blogging, freedom of speech

- Rich, 7:19 AM

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