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Samizdata quote of the day – Choice exposes irrelevance The future is choice.
The BBC hates choice — because choice exposes irrelevance.
No more reverence.
No more compulsory funding.
No more pretending this is about anything other than control.
– Russ
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I’d argue that this is about anything other than keeping the gravy train going.
Good post.
Discovered Joys – NO they value their (evil) doctrines, they value them very much – this is not just about their pay and perks.
As Dr Johnson pointed out – a man is seldom so innocently engaged as when he is after money, because other motives make men (and women) do far worse things than they would do for money.
Today both the British and the French governments attacked the “X” of Mr Elon Musk – this is nothing to do with a gravy train, and everything to do with power and control.
The governments, and general establishment, of Britain and France and, indeed, most nations, HATE liberty – they HATE liberty with an unholy passion.
And in case any American reader is feeling smug – the establishment in the United States also HATE, they would love to replace the 1st Amendment with (say) Article 11 of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) which says that people have the liberty to publish their opinions UNLESS they “abuse” this right, this to be decided by “law” – this “law” being (according to the same document) the expression of the “General Will” (i.e. the ravings of Rousseau’s “Lawgiver” – with what people say they want dismissed as “the will of all” to be despised and destroyed). In short people do NOT have Freedom of Speech in France – indeed they have no rights against the state at-all, as there is “take-back” wording in all the Articled of the Rights of Man – apart from those articles that are so vague that they are meaningless.
A couple of leftist appointments to the United States Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights is dead.
Yes. They talk as if the BBC has a natural right to exist, and keeping it in the manner to which it is accustomed is some kind of national imperative. It’s not. Shut it down.