Reply #13: The question is could such powers be used by the other side [View All]

[bryant69]

For example, could the same arguments be used by the Bush adminsitration or an even more corrupt administration to silence reporters who report things they don't like?

Look, I don't know that there's any question Judith Miller is a hack and doesn't deserve the position she has in society. But once you put in place a formula that says "some reporters are not really reporters because they are partisan hacks," how do you protect the good reporters?

Or to use a quote, "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H. L. Mencken

Bryant