roundtable: Re: wealth distribution

roundtable: Re: wealth distribution

Re: wealth distribution

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:56:07 +0500 

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:56:07 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9502212256.AA13565@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: wealth distribution


I like Rick Moore's radicalismo. It's the part of the American dream
neither our education nor our media consider worthy of mention, but it
casts a heavy, dark shadow on nearly every political debate, however
invisably.Notions of economic justice are considered beyond the pale.

     For still another well-documented insight into the censorship
or harassment of any ideas that criticise capitalism, read Alien Ink
by Natalie Robins - 'the FBI's War on Free Expression". The flower
of American intellectual and literary talent have been systematically
hounded, disinformed, co-opted, accused, eavesdropped, shadowed,
informed upon, denounced through unattributed sources, and prosecuted
for espousing ideas that might infect the body politic with information
tending to cast their rulers in an unflattering light. This since 
before the diseased mind of J. Edgar Hoover, who came on board in 
the 20's.

     Mass media are easier to censor - you simply don't allow certain
opinions on the air - than print, but it was writers whose free speech
was consistently compromised. Against this background, is it any 
question why ideas critical of capitalism are taboo on all mass media?

     I am glad to see this thread on this roundtable. It is "on",
rather than "off" the subject. The best remedy for whatever speech you
consider bad, is more speech.

Jeff Briggs
<jbriggs@capital.edu>

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