I gotta side with Bops, here. At least America still has some rights her people still hold dearly and are not willing to relinquish, and for good reason. Good on you, Bops.

Give people an inch and they will take a mile (or give people a centimeter and they'll take a kilo, for all you metric users ). That's my argument in a nutshell in support of Bops. Not a tough concept to work through.

I concur.

likewise. i find the topic fascinating because of its close relation to Thailand, its impact on expats in Thailand and especially Thai pop music

Who's rattled your cage Naam?

I gotta side with Bops, here. At least America still has some rights her people still hold dearly and are not willing to relinquish, and for good reason. Good on you, Bops.

Give people an inch and they will take a mile (or give people a centimeter and they'll take a kilo, for all you metric users ). That's my argument in a nutshell in support of Bops. Not a tough concept to work through.

I concur.

likewise. i find the topic fascinating because of its close relation to Thailand, its impact on expats in Thailand and especially Thai pop music

Who's rattled your cage Naam?

i can't help it Mr. Bo. it's the missing rainy season

I concur.

likewise. i find the topic fascinating because of its close relation to Thailand, its impact on expats in Thailand and especially Thai pop music

Who's rattled your cage Naam?

i can't help it Mr. Bo. it's the missing rainy season

I thought there must have been a reason. Don't normally see those type of retorts from you sir

I'm wondering where the ACLU is in this debate. Why aren't they filing legal action against the Yale Press to print the cartoons, as they did when the pictures of Abu Ghraib were in the headlines?

It seems a given that the release of those photos put many westerners under threat during the height of the lunacy over the pictures....myself included.

What's the difference betwseen then and now and why hasn't the ACLU come out on the side of freedom of the press?

I was wondering the same thing, but I have yet to see anything from them on this. I feel the ACLU has their plan and are not there for everybody as they say they are, only the cases that help them.

The difference between fighting to have the Abu Ghraib photos published and fighting to have the cartoons published is that one is a fight to uncover something that the public should know (That crimes have been committed and sanctioned under the auspices of the US military), and the other is a fight to "uncover" something merely for the sake of uncovering it.

I suggest the former is the much more important fight and the uncovered knowledge has much greater impact on the public than the latter.