RE: opt out?

["Doug Jones" <credenda@moscow.com>]

Tom Hansen wrote the astounding:

> 
> Government-controlled media?  Sounds like something out of Nazi
Germany or the
> Soviet Union (neither of which exist any more).
> 
> Tax-financed schools ensures for the provision of education in
society.
> 
> Government-controlled media extremely limits information available to
the
> people.
> 
> Enough said?
> 

Do proponents of this sort of view really not hear how conflicted this
sounds? Someone out there must hear the bizarreness of this. To
(rightly) identify government controlled media as Nazi or Soviet, but
then blithely to deny the same terms to the grand flow of information
called public education is really astounding. 

Does any education not also include a very wide flow of information?
Then why not get the willies when any government (mild U.S. or not)
controls that flow of information? 

Sheesh,
Doug Jones