The rights of the matter are not as our cowardly Guest would assert; they are more along the lines of John's observations about particular and specific examples of encroachment against free communication, freedom of personal choices, and freedom of thought.

These are freedoms which are less now, in the commons, than they were ten years ago.

Not a trend that anyone who "loves America" should support. But it seems clear to me that clear thinking is not our highest national characteristic.

As for my pseudo-intellectualism, I don't believe that is a fair accusation. I am widely curious and interested in different views and arenas of life, and I prefer rational thought to reactionary; if that makes me "intellectual" in the implicitly derogatory sense that our furless leader uses the word, so be it. I believe in human intelligence. I wish I could find more of it in the national centers of power.

'Nuff said.

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