Re: Gasp! For broadcast media, patriotism pays

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <RadioTony@aol.com>
To: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:20 AM
Subject: Gasp! For broadcast media, patriotism pays


> As well, I am infuriated that these talk hosts and war shills continue to
question my integrity as an American because I refuse to support this war or
support Bush. Dissent is a basic First Amendment right. Have we learned
nothing from our history? Have we learned nothing about the damn
constitution?

Tony -- The First Amendment protects the right of war shills to question
your integrity just as it protects your right to refuse to support the war
or Bush.  The Constitution protects the rights of the minority to speak but
it also protects the rights of the majority.  Protestors have a right to
protest and talk show hosts have a right to criticize them for doing so.  I
think you have learned nothing from the damn constitution.  It protects the
minority from government action. It does not protect the minority from
criticism by the majority.

> The fact that there is almost no open discussion about the validity of
this war is frightening.

The news networks are too busy second guessing the prosecution of the war
and the strategy on the ground to question the underlying policy.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine