From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 21:17:29 BST
>
>>PACO:
>.. according to your Democracy feelings, you must
>>see Bush as a heck of leader, as he is approved of by
>>the majority of apathetic and unapathetic Americans.
>>For your sake, I hope your view of either Democracy or
>>Bush is wrong.
>>
>> ERIN:
>.. I would like to suggest one of the reasons that his
>> approval is so high because since Sept 11 if you say
>> any criticism of Bush you get frowned upon.
>> Frowns upon criticism of the government make me very
>> nervous.
>
>PACO:
>So, criticism of your criticism makes you nervous? I
>would suggest that REPRESSION of criticism is wrong,
>but "criticism of criticism" is inherent in the right
>of free speech. Erin's position seems disturbingly
>close to "I can disagree with you, but you can't
>disagree with me." Please "clean me up" if I am
>misrepresenting it though.
Well I am going to ignore most of your post because it is about claims I never
made--- eg.g. apathy, convinction. I made an observation of Bush's
intelligence. I am really getting tired of talking about it actually.
I will clean you up because you are completely misreprsenting me.
What made me nervous was the repression of criticism.
Before Sept 11 there was both approval/criticism of the government flowing
freely. After Sept 11, there was a trend of playing on people's fear and
repression of the criticism seemed to appear. I would say 'Axis of Evil'
helped this moral clarity of what 'needs to be repressed'. I have never said
you have to dislike Bush and everything he does. You can completely disagree
with me on anything you want to.
I just don't want to be shushed or accused of a 'terrorist lover' when I don't
support his actions.
erin
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