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angus
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« on: March 09, 2004, 03:52:21 PM »

if it is, then it certainly isn't a very funny one.
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2004, 06:01:33 PM »

here's another one:  an illegal law.

"Hearts in the right place, brains in the wrong place is my take on McCain Feingold"  Mine too.

Atlas shrugged:  capitalist propaganda  Wink
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2004, 06:23:02 PM »

Television ads are where candidates effect the most typical audience. Voters shouldn't be persuaded by television ads on how to vote. Pop-up internet political ads are fair but can be the harshest attacks.

Yes, and benevolent dictatorship is the most efficient form of government.  And smoking is bad for you.  And booze destroys your brain.  And guns kill people.  Sovereignty lies within Man, not within the State.  Internalized values are generally thought to be of a higher sociological order than enforced ones.  That is the current Western socioscientific thinking.  Perhaps you disagree.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2004, 06:54:26 PM »

Everything you say is true, at least the objective parts.  It is on the normative propositions that we disagree.  I guess that's always the case.  Probably more so intrapartisan than interpartisan.  I'd just say be careful what you wish for.  You might get it.  Economic equality probably seemed like a fantastic idea to the Bolsheviks.  Virtue probably seemed like a noble goal in Iran in 1979.  That sort of tyranny would never happen here though.  Not in the USA, right?
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2004, 08:17:12 PM »

Freedom from paid propaganda on the television is a worthwhile goal.

It is a worthwhile goal.  And this freedom already existed before the McCain-Feingold Act was passed.
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