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From: LindyBill	12/6/2005 8:19:46 AM
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Bork Is Slavery Misc objections blog By Ryan Sager on Misc. Libertarianism Over at Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum quotes a choice little selection by Robert Bork (from the National Review 50th anniversary issue) on how to "increase liberty" in America: "Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality," writes the former appeals court judge, now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Censorship as an enhancement of our liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but the most dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free." Bork goes on to complain that "relations between the sexes are debased by pornography"; that "large parts of television are unwatchable"; that "motion pictures rely upon sex, gore, and pyrotechnics for the edification of the target audience of 14-year-olds"; and that "popular music hardly deserves the name of music." Got that? Freedom is slavery. This isn't complicated. Bork is practicing textbook Orwellian language manipulation. And just who on the right thinks it's a tragedy that this man isn't on the Supreme Court?

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