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pan6467 · 09-04-2004, 09:24 AM

This is where I truly have problems with the right. IF we are not to listen or read our press anymore because they are heavily Biased against you, IF we are not to trust public education because it is too liberal and biased against you and "values of US citizens", then whom are we to trust? Limbaugh????? O'Reilly? Hannity? Beck? Faux News? The 700 Club? for our press and what schools are we supposed to trust? Only those parochial and private religious schools, that not all kids can afford (especially middle class whose parents make too much for financial aid and not enough to pay tuitions?)

Perhaps the media does need an overhaul, but that is for the public to decide NOT a group that chooses to destroy them because the media doesn't kowtow to them.

Perhaps public education needs an overhaul, but that is started by sending out newer books, paying teachers more and getting kids to open their minds and find things in education they like. Growing up I went to a "liberal" school district but you know what? I didn't just learn about Darwinism, I learnt about Creationism and then I WAS ALLOWED TO CHOOSE WHAT TO BELIEVE.

It boggles my mind the right wants to destroy the 2 biggest things needed in a democracy a free press and a free public educational system. I have to ask why would anyone want to destroy the 2 most important elemants in society that keep democracy alive.

And we won't get into how they want to destroy the arts and make anything they deem as "not of their values and morals" illegal and hard to get.

Why is it so important to the right to disparage and destroy our rights?

The Left does not go unnoticed in the destruction either. It is because of many of their lawsuits to get everything so equal and politically correct and to destroy heritage by showing how evil history was (when NOT one of them were alive and because of the past we have a better society today). What purpose is there in showing Columbus as being this man who killed all the Indians he could? Or sue our government for slavery? What purpose does the Left have to homogenize and devalue citizens?

This is what we as a nation need to address. Not how biased a press is, but how we are destroying our country's freedoms because of our own biases.

09-04-2004, 09:24 AM	#28 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	This is where I truly have problems with the right. IF we are not to listen or read our press anymore because they are heavily Biased against you, IF we are not to trust public education because it is too liberal and biased against you and "values of US citizens", then whom are we to trust? Limbaugh????? O'Reilly? Hannity? Beck? Faux News? The 700 Club? for our press and what schools are we supposed to trust? Only those parochial and private religious schools, that not all kids can afford (especially middle class whose parents make too much for financial aid and not enough to pay tuitions?) Perhaps the media does need an overhaul, but that is for the public to decide NOT a group that chooses to destroy them because the media doesn't kowtow to them. Perhaps public education needs an overhaul, but that is started by sending out newer books, paying teachers more and getting kids to open their minds and find things in education they like. Growing up I went to a "liberal" school district but you know what? I didn't just learn about Darwinism, I learnt about Creationism and then I WAS ALLOWED TO CHOOSE WHAT TO BELIEVE. It boggles my mind the right wants to destroy the 2 biggest things needed in a democracy a free press and a free public educational system. I have to ask why would anyone want to destroy the 2 most important elemants in society that keep democracy alive. And we won't get into how they want to destroy the arts and make anything they deem as "not of their values and morals" illegal and hard to get. Why is it so important to the right to disparage and destroy our rights? The Left does not go unnoticed in the destruction either. It is because of many of their lawsuits to get everything so equal and politically correct and to destroy heritage by showing how evil history was (when NOT one of them were alive and because of the past we have a better society today). What purpose is there in showing Columbus as being this man who killed all the Indians he could? Or sue our government for slavery? What purpose does the Left have to homogenize and devalue citizens? This is what we as a nation need to address. Not how biased a press is, but how we are destroying our country's freedoms because of our own biases. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"