Report from the Badlands
No I have not stolen Kate Woods's column, only borrowed irs title as an eye catching gimmick. The water is see from my window is drinkable and I don't worship DOG, though I did have an orance cat until a bigger critter got him.
There are many badlands around this great country. In South Dakota, they made a National Park around one. Our own Anza-Borrego Desert State Park has it's own. The City of Los Angeles almost created another in the Owens Valley by piping all it's water south. Badlands are caused by erosion.
The badlands I am reporting on exists all around us. They are caused by the erosion of the freedoms that we hold dear in this county: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press. Whenever those in power start to pretty things up, sweeping them under the rug or washing their hands, new badlands are created.
Whe Pappas Telecasting offered $325,000 worth of free television time to Central Valley Republicans while offering $125,000 of the public's airways on one Spanish Language Station to Democratic Centeral Committees in the Bay Area, as they did in 2004, our freedoms were eroded and new bandland were created.
When members of Congress use their Franking priviledge to target voters in key districts, as Californai Representative Pombo did in Michigan in the 2004 election, new badlands are created.
When the press takes what a Republican Candidate says, matches it with what their Democratic Opponent says without asking if either makes any sense, the relaince of the public on a free press has been eroded and a new badlands created.
When reporters are silenced, dropped, fired or shunted off to write obituaries because what they wrote was not popular, our freedoms are eroded and a new badlands created.
Posted by Wes at March 6, 2006 05:32 PM