Time: Mon Oct 13 07:12:23 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA13351; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:57:22 -0700 (MST) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA25048; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:56:29 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 06:55:42 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: A Once-Free Press (fwd) <snip> > >email: observer@dmi.net > >Dear Editor, > >Leroy Crenshaw wrote: > >"Public exposure to the indecent, illegal and immoral activities of people, >particularly those who have decided to take 50 percent of our wages in >taxes, is the job of a free press. Judging by the way unethical and immoral >people have taken the reins of our country and driven her over a cliff, the >'free' press has not done its job very well. > >"A free press is the only thing that works. If you want your country back, >support your free press. Write to it, advertise in it, subscribe to it and >spread the truth around." > >The trouble is, as I see it, that in our country, at least at the national >level, it is practically impossible to have a free press. That's because >the national media is bought and paid for through advertizing by interests >that stand to suffer if the truth is widely known. For example, what would >happen to some of those businesses if the real truth about the effects of >protectionism were widely understood? What would happen if American >understood that the real purpose of most business regulations is to >protect the monopolies of the businesses that support the media and the >tyrants? > >Even you at the Idaho Observer have to be careful about the dissemination >of truths that might offend your financial supporters. In my view, the >only free press is a press that is totally supported by its customers, the >readers. Aside from probably fewer than a hundred local newsletters, I >suspect the Internet is really our only hope in this venture. As the >Internet spreads and we "little" people discover each other and each >other's truths, and as we pay the communication bills ourselves, America >will once again begin to benefit from a "Free Press." > >If we can get that "Press" free enough and sufficiently widespread in time, >then newspapers like yours that tap into this "inner source" will once >again feel safe dispersing the truth that matters. > >Ken Larsen >(801) 533-8658 >856 East 100 South #2 >Salt Lake City, UT 84102 > >kencan@xmission.com > <snip> =========================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01 B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02 tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03 email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04 website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05 ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best 06 Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone 07 Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this 08 _____________________________________: Law is authority in written words 09 As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall 10 not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. 11 ======================================================================== 12 [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] 13
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