Comments on: More bollocks from Astrid

By: mc

mc — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:25:30 +0000

Agreed. I rephrase. The right to express one’s opinion on an issue brings with it the duty to inform oneself properly on that issue. Incidentally, Labour also gave a helping hand in FAA’s misinformation campaign. This is what Roderick Galdes had to say on 31st July 2008: ” Among the worrying factors are the very stability of St John’s Co-Cathedral as well as underground historic remains.”

By: mc

mc — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:36:25 +0000

The gist of what HRH Astrid is trying to say is that everyone has a right for an opinion. Correct. If memory serves me right, it was Peter Serracino Inglott who once said that the right to have an opinion brings with it the responsibility to inform yourself of the facts (or words to that effect).

FAA work the other way round. First they form an opinion and then use the media to shape and twist “fact” to conform with that opinion. Then they are joined by AD, James Tyrell and anyone else for whom it is politically convenient give them a helping hand in the misinformation campaign.

[Daphne – Actually, the right in question is the right to express an opinion, not to have one. We form our opinions in the enclosed privacy of our minds, and other people can’t possibly have any control over that, no more than we do. If you see a beautiful woman, I imagine that you immediately form the opinion that she is beautiful, before you can help yourself. But I agree with the rest of it – FAA are the quintessence of power without responsibility.]

By: mj

mj — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:14:08 +0000

I know I’m late in my comments, but I just read this posting. I’m quite intrigued by David’s comments about: “a country which believes that it is free but whose people are still held hostage by fear”. Strange comment coming from the offspring of the head of the Censorship Board. Quite ironic, don’t you think?

By: kev

kev — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:29:35 +0000

That’s exactly what I said in different words.

By: kev

kev — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:12:41 +0000

Daphne is a Statist, Astrid. She believes in the omnipotence of the State and its self-serving executive. For her, democracy is a privilege meted out once every five years and the choice should be no other than between Establishment Clique A and Establishment Clique B.

[Daphne – Actually, Kev. I’m not. I believe in the rule of allow and in allowing institutions to do their work. Those institutions shore up and guarantee democracy. Outsides, anarchy and corruption lie – and we experienced them.]