Mitt Romney has stated that he will end funding for Public Broadcasting System if he is elected president and the uproar can be heard across our nation. Truly amazing. The NDAA with Sections 1021 and 1022, calling for military arrests and indefinite detention for US nationals, is put into law, seemingly without any objection from the general population. But suggest defunding PBS and immediately the people begin to organize in opposition.
A million muppet march on Washington Mall is being called for on November 3rd. At issue is $445 million of government funding for PBS. It is very interesting how different concepts are pulled apart and reassembled in double negatives. The very idea of public broadcast is independence and freedom from influence. I guess the thought here is that the government does not influence those it finances. Do you believe that?
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