Followup to my blog entry and subsequent complaint to the state-run CBC. Read this here first.
They make it sound like they had no choice but to broadcast this communist’s remarks. No choice.
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I really don’t think I should have to be constantly on guard, and to have to listen to the state-run radio 24/7 in order to ensure my country’s government and its state-run media division and its various media branches aren’t the source of the dissemination of overtly communist ideas which manifestly takes away my God-given human rights; and for expressions of anti-religious and anti-freedom remarks or ideas. Or is communism perfectly acceptable in the new Canada?
I grew up thinking that fighting this sort of thing in wars was worth the ultimate sacrifice, as our own Canadian soldiers in our nation’s glory days did. Now it’s our state-run media that I have to fight? Our own state? This sounds eerily familiar to me.
No, I really don’t think I should have to take the time and to publicly engage, over state-run radio, in an argument about freedom of religion—I thought it was already guaranteed under our Charter of Rights. I thought you who are politically “left”, which the CBC most assuredly is, were all about our Charter of Rights, where, it might surprise you, it explicitly states as the very first fundamental right in our nation, that our religious freedoms are absolutely guaranteed. It’s literally the very first freedom in the “fundamental freedoms” listed in our Charter of Rights, almost directly under the part where it says: “Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God…”.
I should have to argue that point on my country’s state-run public radio now? This concept is now suddenly open to some discussion—some question?
No. I think the CBC simply made an abhorrent choice in thinking they could get away with this newest attempt at pushing the extreme liberal-left fundamentalist envelope, this time well into communist territory.
And they should apologize along with the government which owns and runs it at its pleasure with our tax dollars. Moreover, they should never do that again, and ultimately, they should be dismantled and put out of their misery.
Apparently, according to the state-run CBC, I, as a citizen, am wrong.
I still don’t understand why the state-run media exists, nor why it has any opinions being expressed at all whatsoever.
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