The RIGHT Perspective
Freedom of speech is a two way street
Issue date: 10/27/04 Section: Opinion
Shannon M. Jones
Staff Writer
The liberals just do not get it. They fail to, or refuse to, understand that freedom of speech is a two way street.
The liberals who support the John Kerry campaign approve of Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," which is riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
For example, Moore implies that Bush has close ties with the Bin Laden family, mainly through George H. W. Bush's relationship with the private investment firm, the Carlyle Group.
It is fabrications such as this that the Left are using to discredit Bush.
Regardless of all the dishonesty the film projected, the Republican Party refused to launch a crusade to have Moore's movie censored or pulled from theaters. Of course they rebutted the film, but they did not in any way try to ban Moore's documentary.
Why didn't the Bush administration try to ban the film?
Because this is America, a country where we have freedom of speech.
Now, there is another documentary causing controversy called "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," a film produced by Red, White and Blue Productions, Inc., an independent documentary producer. The film is a 45-minute movie which includes testimony from highly decorated POWs and their wives about previously undisclosed details regarding life in the North Vietnamese prison camps after John Kerry's congressional testimony and public anti-war statements.
The funding for the documentary was made possible by Pennsylvania Vietnam veterans who wanted the truth told.
Now the Kerry supporters want Stolen Honor banned.
In fact, the Baderwood Theater in Jenkintown, Pa. cancelled the showing of the film, caving in to threats of civil disobedience from liberal protestors.
If that is not enough, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is one of the largest and most diversified broadcasting companies providing sales services to 62 television stations, including FOX, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN affiliates, is under pressure to not show a POW documentary called "A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media."