[252] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Mon Sep 26 18:10:23 1994
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 18:05:26 -0400
From: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich)
To: hhuang@MIT.EDU, libertarians@MIT.EDU, theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca
> HUD harassment of citizens for opposing them;
> FCC regulation of airwaves (e.g., "Hush Rush" bill)
It was that conservative bastion, the ACLU, that blew the lid off the HUD
business.
As for the FCC, again there is this dead notion that the "airwaves are
limited and thus should be public" or "we all have an equal right to
all of them." Given that assumption, their arguments against Rush are
almost the same as mine against PBS.
The liberal I argued this with, said he was "forced" to pay for Limbaugh
every time he bought a product that bought advertising on his show. While
it was an incorrect application, the idea that he should not be forced
to support ideas he did not like was very libertarian. Never did he
suggest that Limbaugh be censored, only that some shows of his own views
got a chance at "his" airwaves as well. A misreading of the facts, or
context, does not necessarily indicate hostility towards the principle.
Vernon
