To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (320862 ) 11/17/2002 9:16:17 PM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 769670 Jewish media monopoly being broken by the Internet: Dangerous Days for the Internet, by John Bottoms, Strike the Root, November 15, 2002 "Gone are the days when the internet was just a toy of college students and disaffected young people. Today’s internet is a throwback to the heady days of our nation’s founding, with its passionate political debates on the great issues of the day. The rich diversity of opinions available on internet sites stands in stark contrast to our newspapers and television news, which for the most part march in lockstep with whomever has scrambled to the top of the current political pile. Taken as a whole, the internet is like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which flamed the desire for freedom and independence in the American colonists. It is our last public institution that cares about liberty, or any idea for that matter ... The internet may be the last truly independent medium for keeping the public informed, but a dangerously “loose cannon” to our power elites. The internet is more of a threat to the status quo than any medium of communication since printing became economical hundreds of years ago, especially with the likelihood of war, economic chaos, and political dissent in our near future ... Not surprisingly, authorities worldwide are responding to the loss of their propaganda monopoly by trying to restrict this free flow of information. The EU’s hook into internet control is “hate speech.” Buried in its prohibitions on racial prejudice is an attempt to outlaw sites which “deny, minimize, approve or justify crimes against humanity,” which could easily include critics of the US War on Terrorism." strike-the-root.com