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Monday, April 04, 2005
Instantman links Cap'n Ed, who's publishing the goods on corruption in Canada. One question that's been raised several places today, though, is what would happen if the American government tried this maneuver. We know, of course, that the Post and Times would be filing FOIA claims on any Republican administration while the WSJ op-ed folks, at least, would be after any Democrat. But what of the citizenry?
It is a testament not just to our countrymen, but to the country and its founding fathers who set it in motion, that most efforts to rein in the media provoke more controversy, not less, while efforts to regulate us "amateurs" are less opportunities to quash speech than to get an in-box full of e-mail from people who just don't seem prepared to sit down and shut up.
We're very lucky in one regard, then: because of our manner of parting company with the British Empire, we have both the habits of liberty and the customs of liberty, the two reinforcing each other to create a breed that knows its rights and knows the value of protecting them.
posted by gbarto at 10:51 PM
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