re: #346 Expand Your Ground

again - we are dealing with politically and socially backwards parts of the world in which the uneducated massess assume that anything published, broadcast or distributed must have the government’s approval.

and in which the educated masses know better but are happy to use the situation to stir up the masses.

but regardless of the consequences, we cannot start curtailing freedom of speech just because it might be used as a means for educated cynics to rile up uneducated fundamentalists…

You mean like right wing media does to the backwards uneducated masses in the US?
On the way home last night, AM radio (John Batchelor show), Victor Davis Hansen was basically going full metal wingnut: US looks weak, Obama blames Bush, we should not apologize for shit and plant 3 aircraft carrier groups in the ME.