hypocrisy and still more hypocrisy
Topics: Rights, Subsidy
21 Oct 1993
From: ervan
I see that Janet Reno, the very Janet Reno who presided over
the flambee of about 70 people at Waco because some of them
were *accused* of ordering parts that could be used to convert
legal weapons to automatic weapons, is now upset that there is
too much violence on TV and is advocating various sorts of
censorship to solve the problem. Will this keep FBI raids off
of the news? In typical sociologist fashion she notes that
violent people watch violent shows and therefore the latter
causes the former, ugh!
The same group of liberals in the Senate who are upset about TV
violence just recently passed a bill to try and force cable TV
companies to lower their rates for the basic (violent)
channels. Huh? If TV is so evil, why are they trying to
subsidize the poor to get more of it?
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Though this is a few months old, I see that Hillary RC, a lawyer
by profession, has accused the drug companies of price gouging.
Well, I guess she is an expert of sorts.
This is related to Reno because they are both using the same tool,
jawboning. Hillary RC has threated price controls if drug companies
don't 'voluntarily' restrain prices. Reno threatened censorship
if networks don't clean up their act. Thus, they can have price
controls and censorship without actually acknowledging it via
a law or having it subject to court challenge (and of course they
will continue to say they are opposed to such things).
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DICK Gephardt said on "This Week with David Brinkley" on Sunday
that we was opposed to NAFTA because 'Mexico does not have a
free labor market'! An absolutely shameless comment. First,
the U.S. does not have a free labor market either. Second,
Gephardt is out front in making the U.S. labor market less
free. He complained that the problem with Mexico is that
government negotiates for workers and then he is in favor of
the no replacement workers bill. Third, what difference does
Mexico having a free labor market make to NAFTA?
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Bob Dole deserves honorable mention for having reversed his
position on presidential perogative for use of military force,
given the new resident in the White House.
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