<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Sep 16, 2016, at 9:10 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 16, 2016 7:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] sugar industry corruption<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#222222"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">>…So much for the United States supposed freedom of the press. <br><br><a href="https://rsf.org/en/ranking" target="_blank">https://rsf.org/en/ranking</a><br><br>C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Well, if 40 countries have greater freedom than we do (highly doubtful) I think that's a great thing</span>…<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ja! But we have it explicitly ensured in our own constitution, so why aren’t we big number 1 on that?</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Recall, it was an amendment. And this should also lead you to question the efficacy of constitutions.<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">I have heard no complaints from our press about their freedoms</span>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Indeed sir? Have you not heard of James Rosen and his run-ins with the Department of “Justice”?</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Not just him. The RSF site also lists other examples. The US government has a long history of talking freedom, but when it comes to actually respecting it there's a mixed record. And the respect is usually in the breach here.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black"> So I think we cannot be much freer, but I have not looked into it.</span> b<span style="color:black">ill w</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Well BillW, you know the cure for having not looked into it, ja? So do we.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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