...I should be able to fire them, for whatever reason I choose. I guess that's the way it was before freedom of association in America was killed off. It may be bad business, and I personally wouldn't want to work for anyone who had such a stringent policy, but any employer should be free to make such decisions, and be free to either benefit or suffer the consequences.

A hatchet job on Monsanto? Allow me to quote:

According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts.

Without copies of the transcripts and proposed revisions, the assertions of the reporters and Project Censored are merely statements of opinion.

During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akreâ(TM)s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.

Again, I want to see actual court transcripts detailing the arguments of the Fox attorneys.

Just another poster? Just another defender of the status quo pandering to the owning class in hopes of joining the club. They laugh at you, you know, and will never let you in their club because you are a fucking peasant, to be used and used up and thrown away.

Better to be "used" than murdered, which is what happens when those much like yourself achieve the absolute power they seek.

False equivalency. Fox News has been proven, again and again, to lie on air nearly continuously. Heck, they fought and won a lawsuit defending their right to lie on air.

I want to see court transcripts clearly showing that Fox attorneys argued that the station in question had the right to lie.

What actually happened was that the two reporters who filed the lawsuit, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, were probably trying to do a hatchet-job on Monsanto. When the Fox affiliate station asked them to balance it out with Monsanto's side of the story, they refused, stalled for nine months, and were fired. They sued under a Florida "whistleblower" statute, and lost. The court did not decide whether or not the report was truthful. The court did not say that WTVT, the Fox affiliate, had a right to lie. The court simply said that no law was broken. There is no evidence that WTVT asked Wilson and Akre to lie.

In this view, which I believe is pretty well supported by history, Muslim extremists are more of a symptom than a cause of U.S. policy

Muslim "extremists" have been on the war path ever since the time of Muhammad.

So what country do you live in?

In the US, there's a chance, depending on the state you're in, that you'll be put to death for capital murder, not adultery.

Assuming that everything you mention is true, that isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to what Stalin did to the peasants.

Several of the founding fathers were quite against inherited wealth, but because it stifles industry in those who inherit their wealth, and because it leads to the foundation of a dangerous plutocracy.

In America, we saw great turnover in the Forbes 400 within one generation. In Hong Kong, the turnover is probably greater. In France, where great measures are taken to prevent "dangerous plutocracy", we see that those on top are the lineal decedents of those who were on top at the time of Napoleon.

I read on Wikipedia that the Sandy Bridge replacements for LGA 1366 high-end desktop CPUs aren't due out until Q3 2011. Maybe that's when X68 will be released.

Look at the history of the labor movement. The mega-companies at the turn of the century had de-facto private armies that beat and killed workers who protested horrendous working conditions.

The actual history of the labor movement shows that these "private armies" were used to defend replacement workers against unionists who were assaulting and/or murdering them. Such was the case, for instance, at Homestead.

I suggest you move to a capitalist paradise like Somalia, where you'll never have the government trying to take your hard-earned money to help your fellow citizens.

In Somalia, there is a significant risk of 100 percent confiscation, due to various would-be governments and pseudo-governments.

Doesn't sound very much like a "capitalist paradise" to me.

The only chance is to reach people through internet, and you are seeing how hard they are trying to censor it, and get it under corporate control through any means possible.

The Internet in America is already under "corporate control", being almost entirely private, and as a result, it is one of the freest mediums on the planet.

That is not fascism.

If by that you mean that all private business and interest groups are forcibly organized into cartels subservient to the government, then yes, that might be defined as 'fascism'.

The anti-semitism of Hitler was the anti-semitism of Karl Marx, not Christians.

Cuba has the rest of the world to trade with, but they're still poor.

Besides, if America was allowed to trade with Cuba, the left would be screaming and hollering from the rooftops about "sweatshops" and Americans "exploiting" the Cuban population.