tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post7202480450460854744..comments2024-01-05T09:33:41.964-05:00Comments on Dare Generation Diary: Don't Take Any Odds In This FightGarret Overstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591273708913985060noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542739.post-48710157707474416792007-10-07T08:37:00.000-05:002007-10-07T08:37:00.000-05:00Has anyone noticed that Milton Friedman was never ...Has anyone noticed that Milton Friedman was never invited to debate the issue with any drug czar? It won't happen. If you don't have any evidence whatsoever that can stand up to any semblance of scrutiny why would you want to debate? Besides, the news media laughs at anyone who thinks willingness to debate is any barometer. They don't have to debate!<BR/> As long as absolutely no scrutiny is given to any statements by advocates facts are irrelevant. Those facts can be cherry picked to suit whatever political agenda is desired. Of course, as gatekeepers for information the corporate owned mass media can also cherry pick the political agendas to protect those in authority. The logic is: where there is smoke [and mirrors?] there is fire! Inundate citizen taxpayers with all sorts of scary stories and they soon believe that cherry picked personal accounts are the norm. Who cares if the overall facts belie the message? Who cares if the "evidence" doesn't add up or even remotely make sense? If it is repeated enough times it becomes fact in the public domain. <BR/> Even respected conservative and liberal icons like Milton Friedman and Walter Cronkite can be blithely ignored. Just don't publish their statements or stick them in the back pages. Better yet, confine them and any hard evidence to the editorial page. Then those irrefutable facts can be lumped in with holocaust denial rants as "opinion". It's all about false associations. If holocaust deniers and drug policy reformers are on the same page, they carry the same political weight.JT Barriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571868033521182864noreply@blogger.com