Re: opt out?

["Troy Merrill" <troy1@moscow.com>]

Doug Jones wrote:
> 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?

Does not a democratic government have an interest in promoting its ideology?
I will argue that you and Doug Wilson enjoy your current position because a
democratic government has inculcated its citizenry with an ideology that
contains tolerance as a core value. In the world you promote you would be
toast.

Troy Merrill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Jones" <credenda@moscow.com>
To: "'Vision 20/20'" <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: opt out?


> 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
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