Subject: Limits to freedom

BC,

I'm growing incredibly tired of quotes much like the one printed on a Photo
Shop montage at the bottom of your most recent article.

But why do you let W's quote "There ought to be limits to freedom" bother
you when so many similar quotes have come from Clinton? Why do you choose to
ignore the same thing from your side?

I'm no fan of W and I detest the preceding quote, but read a few of the following:

 "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ."
     --Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993.

 "...unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone."
     --Bill Clinton, April 20, 1993

 "The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."
     - Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993

 "You know the one thing that's wrong with this country?
    Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
    - Bill Clinton, May 29, 1993, The White House

"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a
radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was
assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly....
However, now there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's
too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
--Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough"
 

Limba's not allowed to give people passes but you are?

I ask you to publish this email. I want a decent explanation from anybody as to why
I should be bothered by one thing W says, yet ignore the same thing from Bill.

I'll answer any email. I'm a fair and open minded guy.
Thanks.

Brandon Sutherland

P.S. I love the site but I hate hypocrisy. From anyone.
 

Brandon,
I'm not familiar with your Clinton quotes.
Let's assume they are 100 percent accurate - what was their context?

If the question was "Should farmers be allowed to buy dynamite and ammonium nitrate without
government interference or taggants when they need to clear some land?" then Clinton could be
correct if he said "The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."

(Your sure he said that?  I'd really like to hear the context.)

But we KNOW when the idiot Smirk said "There should be limits to freedom," he was talking
about Zack Exley's web site (http://www.gwbush.com/) that poked fun at him and his cocaine problem.

If Clinton was talking about a small, private web site that criticized him, I'd say the situations
are similar and I'd either forgive the Smirk or criticize Clinton - depending. But if Clinton said
something about hate radio having gone too far after April 19, 1995,  he's got a lot more to stand on
than Governor Blow Monkey's whining like a child who needs a nap.
 

Until you can show Clinton criticizing a one-man web site, the situations can't be compared.

Your turn,

bc