"Look at poor Neuchl there," (gesturing toward the body of a German POW who has been murdered by the fanatical U-Boat Captain Schleutter) he's all in order now, wouldn't you say? Alles ist in ordnung." -- Captain Jack Connor, The McKenzie Break, 1970
Dear Dusty,
Are you sure you're not channeling Josef Goebbels? He would certainly understand your plan to bring order out of Internet chaos. The question has always been, whose order? Freedom and liberty, like capitalism, are inherently messy and inefficient systems, except when you compare them to the collectivist alternatives, which never work and are more often than not murderous.
Let me put it another way. If you remove the ability of people to peaceably and freely express themselves, they will, according to the Law of Unintended Consequences, find other ways to express themselves -- ways that are not so peaceable.
This should give you, as the public proponent of a tyrannical scheme, some pause as you reflect upon the possible unintended consequences of your plan. Should you get your way, some people who value their liberty might get the wrong idea, or perhaps, the right idea, that you are responsible for the disenfranchisement of their First Amendment rights. Some might even be upset enough to invoke the Second Amendment to protect the First.
Are you sure you've thought this through?
Have a nice day.
Mike Vanderboegh
Alleged Leader of a Merry Band of Three Percenters
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
GeorgeMason1776@aol.com
[Also see: Dinosaur Demands Government Outlaw Mammals]
4 comments:
I love how Dusty drags up that socialist priest from the 30s' radio as an example of what is good about mass communication. He loves whatever medium he and his fellow socialist murderers use, but freedom loving smart folks, not so much. Maybe they can organize a torchlight parade, and burn conservative books to demonstrate their rejection of people that don't agree with them. Then the people themselves.
people only seem to complain there's too much of something if they want to control it. mike seems pretty much right on the money, here.
"They that start by burning books, will end by burning men." --Heinrich Heine
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