Russian——It is obvious you haven’t read many of my
post on these sites.  I worked as a School Psychologist.  I’ve seen what fast food has done to
people, especially children.  I have advocated
mandatory Child Development and Family Relations
courses to teach people not only how fast food and
other food choices are harmful to humans but to teach them also the media strategies the fast food
industry uses to manipulate their choices.  In the
Bible God says, “people perish because of a lack of
understanding.”  It’s hard to teach understanding to
people when most of the media is owned by a hand full of corporations who care more about the bottom
line than the health of people.  You are absolutely
wrong in making the assertion that a person has the
right to ingest whatever they want.  What if they are ingesting something that is tearing their families apart.  THAT’S WHAT I MEANT ABOUT YOU NOT
LIVING ON EARTH BY YOURSELF.  I assume, like the rest of us, you have people who love you and don’t
want to see you destroying yourself along with
them.  Did you watch “Intervention” tonight from
8-10p.m. on A & E.  If you did you know how injesting drugs was not only destroying the people
but also the people around them that love them.  I’m
sorry.  Someone must wiser than myself said, “No man/woman is an island.”  Wake up and look around
at the people being destroyed by what they put in
their bodies.

How Christian of you - ignore the valid points I raise and reduce the argument to personal attacks. Go on make another marijuana joke and show your ignorance.
I know I’m not the only one on this planet, that is why I don’t selfishly impose my views on everyone like you do, I think parents and non-parents should have the FREEDOM of CHOICE to put what they want in their bodies. It doesn’t concern you that our drinking water, our children’s toys, our food is all filled with poison, but if you ingest the “wrong” poison, the government can throw you in prison and take away your liberties? You are okay with that double standard? You are okay with Mcdonalds killing millions every year and turning our kids into large, porcine, diabetes-sufferers? Doctors prescribing amphetimines and antideppresants to our kids stronger than anything you would find on the street, that’s also okay? But some folk choosing to “get high” from an innocuous plant, this is what you think would make Jesus angry?

Truthdig has not reported the OIC resolution to limit free speech at the UN because that story does not further Truthdig’s worldview, which is that the problems in the world arise from American conservatism, capitalism and Christianity.

If an American Christian organization or a Republican person or a capitalist proposed to limit free speech it would be reported daily. Every development would be under a magnifying glass. And rightfully so. Yes, rightfully so.

But if any event exhonerates or disproves such activity, it is ignored.

Truthdig(under Gore Vidal’s inspiration) is preoccupied with the hunt for “fascism” among American conservatives. Loves to call American Christians “fascists”. Gore Vidal took the plunge when he called a conservative person a “Nazi” on national TV fifty years ago, and his ilk are committed to fortifying that idea at all costs.

It would make Truthdig’s attacks on Christians look quite petty if they were to report what was going on at the UN. Or at least Truthdig would have to use much more severe language for what the OIC is doing. Except there really isnt more severe language than what Truthdig uses on Christians. But even if there was, how could Truthdig attack another culture so mercilessly? After all, the Left is multicultural. It simply cannot be done.

When there is an glimmer of awareness on Truthdig(such as the concern for the plight of Afghan women) that finally bubbles to the surface, it cannot be discussed intelligently because the lead article writer and the bloggers have very limited knowledge of the basis of the problem. And oh my, thats a painful blog to read, with bloggers blaming the plight of the Afghan women on US policy, on the Midle Ages, on poverty,... etc etc.

To put it another way, the problem cannot be named. That is where Truthdig is at.

Now we do need our liberal blogs. We do need the criticism from the left. It is just completely blinkered on some improtant subjects and it weakens the whole enterprise.

So when a one local TV station owner doesnt want to broadcast Ozzy’s show… Truthdig jumps on that. As if free speech is under attack! And if the owner could be proven to be a Christian or a Republican they certainly would have worked that angle too.

Russian Paul—-Go back to smoking your whacky weed
and join the rest of the blind(ignorant).  If the
blind lead the blind, they will both fall in a ditch.
I hate to be the one to break this to you but it
appears from your ignorant comments you need it.
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THIS PLANET!

i’m new here, and asking why Truthdig wont report it?

not rhetorically at all.

I said: The UN has been threatening to limit freedom of speech, but Truthdig never has reported anything about it.

The tshirtdoctor asks: is that true?  and if it is, why?

Are you asking about what the UN is up to? Or do you know that already and are asking rhetorically why Truthdig wont report it?

why has truthdig decided that the ozzy show is a question about our 1st amendment right?  like OzarkMichael said:

Typical Truthdig. The UN has been threatening to limit freedom of speech, but Truthdig never has reported anything about it.

is that true?  and if it is, why?

Is that you Tipper Gore? Parents should do their job to avoid negative influence and stay out of other people’s lives. What you seem to advocate is family-first -fascism where all art must be child-safe. As for your derogatory druggie comments - it’s the government maintaining control over what can and can’t be put in your body that should be upsetting you. Alcohol, tobacco, and the fast food industry kills HUNDREDS of MILLIONS more than all the illegal drugs added up, just look at the numbers.

In reference to Freedom of Speech, it is illegal to
yell “Fire” in a movie theatre.  One day, when people
better understand what influences the attitudes and
behaviors of people, especially children, it will also be illegal to get by with a lot of behavior that
presently exists under the guise of “Freedom of Speech.”  In reference to the drugs, sex and rock and
roll culture try to watch some episodes of the TV
program “Intervention.”  I believe the next episodes
will be on A & E next Monday from 8-10 p.m.  By the
way, I don’t believe “religion” will have anything
to do with the misery you will observe individuals
and families undergoing.  We have lost a whole
generation to your drugs, sex, and rock and roll
subculture of pathetic individuals.  In fact, many
of that generation are now running the world as
politicians.  Think there might be a correlation?

In America—as elsewhere—free speech is confined to the dead.

-Mark Twain

I like the “Old Uncle” comparison, very good.

Christian96, it is the PEOPLE’s decision what they should or should not watch, not ONE man in Panama City. NOT one preacher in Bugfuck, AR, and certainly not ANY of us—myself included. 

Get it?

THAT is why I used the handle Fascism.

Christian - So free speech should only be allowed if one is speaking something “significant” or “positive?” Are you hearing youself? Let me explain something - in rock and roll, the devil does not represent satan, but FREEDOM. Drugs, sex, and rock and roll all part of a subculture of freedom that any despotic government wishes to shut down. And they do it with the guise of religion.

Let me also explain that I am no fan of Ozzy, not because he is a “bad influence on our children,” but because he is a pathetic, overrated, Elvis-Presly figure who wrote very little of his own music. Now GG Allin, THAT is a man who you want to keep your kids away from. For pete’s sake, Ozzy is like the drunk grandfather at every reunion, he’s harmless.

Typical Truthdig. The UN has been threatening to limit freedom of speech, but Truthdig never has reported anything about it. No, instead they decide the main free speech issue is Ozzy getting his show aired in one town in Florida. The political Left in this country doesnt know who its friends are.

A typical truthdigger said this:

Thanks for visiting, and be sure to say hello to all the other fascists at home.

I suppose the temptation to play the fascism card is just too great. Hopefully the truthdigger didnt mean it. But one never knows. The propaganda on the Left is pretty intoxicating.

The Free Speech law was to protect people who voice
opinions concerning issues confronting our society.
For example, the opinions you read here on Truthdig.
Where else will you find these opinions?  Our thoughts, speech, and behavior have an influence on
others.  That influence can be positive or negative.
I can’t find ANYTHING positive about Ozzy Osbourne.  He obiviously puts on his act to make MONEY.  He and those like him have corrupted millions of people in
the name of free speech.  If he had something significant to say about world conditions I would
define his right to say so but just to act and speak the trash he does is vulgar, distasteful, and harmful to young people, especially those whose minds are altered by some substance.

I find it interesting that those in this forum who are claiming to defend free speech are in effect telling those who disagree with them to shut up.

Tomack—-Please define YOUR definition of fascist.
Seems to be a popular term to throw around to represent filth nowadays.  Free Speech isn’t free
when he harms the attitudes and behaviors of others,
especially chldren going through puberty.

Dear Christian96, I think you missed your turn, you should have taken a right, not a left, in order to get to the correct blog.

Thanks for visiting, and be sure to say hello to all the other fascists at home.

Thank God for some show of intestinal fortitude and
rationality by WPGX.  Ozzy, The Prince of Darkness
as he refers to himself, has been corrupting the minds of children for much too long now.  Let him rot
in a Senior Citizen facility.  For God Sakes, QUIT
GIVING THIS DECEIVER YOUR MONEY!

Tim, it’s funny you mention South Park, although it might be juvenile at times, they are very clever and have pushed the envelope on free speech more than any other show in recent years, they are sort of the Lenny Bruce of cartoon shows, I don’t know why you would say that isn’t worth defending.

We unfortunately already have an Idiocracy, but dictating what people should and shouldn’t watch isn’t the answer.

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
—Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.

“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising”.
former NBC news President Rubin Frank

Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it’s worth noting that Swinton was called “The Dean of His Profession” by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:

  ” There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an
    independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you
    who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
    beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
    keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others
    of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who
    would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the
    streets looking for another job.

    If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
    before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of
    the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to
    vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his
    daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting
    an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men
    behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and
    we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
    property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. “

Sheeple please, the media is and has been controlled for a very long time.