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To: Lola who wrote (4021)	10/10/2001 6:31:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) of 281500

It's interesting that freedom of the press should not apply to a country or company publishing Osama's comments, which I found very interesting. "Yes, freedom of the press is fine, but that was beyond the pale, so before you publish something, submit it to the Central Committee and we will tell you if you can publish or not" quoth the freedom fighters in the USA government. I always remain extremely suspicious of people who think I should not know something. I have never yet preferred to have somebody censor my material for me. Of course the location of soldiers and all sorts of such information should not be available. But in the battle for hearts and minds, the ideas need to be aired and those supporting them be evident [so that at least we will know who to kill - such as the WTC celebrating Palestinians, Osama, Saddam, and a lot more besides]. I don't believe Osama's talk should be unpublished. Now we KNOW for sure from his own mouth [or, more precisely, the translator's in my case, though I expect the translation was correct or we'd hear about it] that he is all in favour of the WTC destruction. That's sufficient to end him. It is far more convincing than some CIA or NSA spook telling us that he is responsible [because we know they will lie if it suits them]. The hearts and minds of the world are needed. A KGB cloak of secrecy is NOT the way to get that support. The world is not to be run by a cartel of secretive Kremlin Stalinist types. Freedom means actually being free to express one's own mind and to receive information one selects. It doesn't mean free to receive State-approved information. It's amusing to see support for different points of view in this SI stream. What a joke! It's as though people should check their brains at the door. Mqurice

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