Looking over some recent articles for a column, I found something just delightful.
You may have caught Jerry Falwell’s op-ed in the Sunday Times, explaining how his invitation of John McCain to speak at Liberty University this Saturday is not any kind of endorsement (while calling the senator “one of America’s most profound heroes” and “the kind of conservative candidate whom I would have little trouble supporting”).
What I just caught is this charming (really, no sarcasm) barb:
Who better to challenge and inspire a graduating class than a speaker who has served his country as a soldier and a statesman? Who better to remind us that sometimes deep sacrifices for our country are necessary to protect the freedoms — like freedom of speech — that we all enjoy?
Yes, freedom of speech is quite important. Even if the senator doesn’t think so.
Falwell may be working on forgiveness. But he wants McCain to remember that he won’t forget.
Giving somebody money is protected speech.
Corporations have the same rights as citizens under the constitution.
These are the two highly dubious principals that haved choked the life out of democracy in the USA. We now have a government of the wealthy, for the wealthy and by the wealthy.
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But yes, it seems that the wealthy are only wealthy because of the poor becoming poorer… alas.
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
-Noam Chomsky
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” — Sinclair Lewis