Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
I've responded to this post by Matt Welch RE calls for censorship around Ted Rall’s “terror widows” cartoon with the following:
Keyes hedged but did suggest that he woud support censorship against Rall if other means were not enough. In a March 11 column he wrote "this brutal and inhuman comic strip was not debate – it was an assault on the decent national sensibilities crucial to the war effort."
Further down he said:
A free people should normally suppress such activities through private moral judgment and association. Pornographers should be shunned by all, and likewise Mr. Ted Rall should have been fired immediately by those with professional authority over him, or in contractual relations with him. Such action in defense of the decent judgment of this people in regard to 9-11 would be more than sufficient to keep such as Mr. Rall from subverting our national resolve.
But it is worth remembering that when serious and sustained attempts to undermine public opinion on a matter genuinely essential to national life cannot be resisted by other means, governmental action may be necessary. For governmental action is also the action of a free people...
This certainly sounds like somebody who at wouldn't have a problem with the principle of imprisoning critics of the war if they were harming "the war effort."
If anybody knows of any other calls, and I'm not sure there were any, please leave a message for Matt or tell me. posted by micah holmquist at 8/21/2002 05:57:00 PM
