Never wonder what happened again
Monday, 8 October 2007 by Jacob TomawZach’s comment to my post about Anastasio Prieto getting his money back was “What a pleasant surprise. You don’t often hear good news like this.”
You never hear about this for 2 reasons.
First, I am a pessimist on government and I think it is not in its nature to do the right thing most of the time.
Second, often the main story is front page news but the follow-up will be months later and buried. The follow up is usually more interesting to me. (Call me romantic, but I also like to finish books and know the conclusions to stories generally.)
I don’t have great advise about the first. Don’t believe government, support watchdogs and lobbies, and vote.
Through the miracle of technology and The Google, I do have an answer to the second provlem. Google news allows you to setup email alerts and subscribe to feeds via RSS. Want to know when your company is in the news? When a relative is in the news? When Alastasio Prieto is in the news? Just set up a feed. The next time you read something you want to be sure to hear the end of, set up a search.
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October 9th, 2007 at 7:16
Interesting about the ACLU…that is the first positive thing I have heard them do in the past 20 years! They usually spend their time twarting any attempt at continued tradition and the removal of anything remotely Christian from the public eye (see Christmas Trees, 10 Commandments, “…under God”, etc.).
The reason this was on the front page and the above stories rarely are is the media’s fascination with promoting a secular progressive agenda - fueled by the ACLU. By putting a positive spin on the ACLU, it allows the media to pull a glorified mask over the ACLU and put the organization on a pedestal. Therefore, when stories like the ones I mention above are brought up, the media can spike them to the back page in the newspaper without having any guilt.
I do agree…Watchdogs are great, and government has no incentive to improve - especially when the ACLU is the watchdog…
October 11th, 2007 at 15:24
I don’t really agree with you, Kristoffer. ACLU does lots of things besides “thwarting any attempt at continued tradition.” My belief is that newspapers report on those stories because they know it’ll get their readers riled up. “UCLA trying to ban Christmas!” Generally what they’re trying to do is to keep religion from not getting mixed up with government. I would guess that more people would be behind the ACLU in these attempts if the ornaments being put up were of some other religion, but I’ve never heard of anybody trying to put up a statue of the Torah.
My sister even said something along the same lines once: “I don’t think there should be separation of church and state.” I should have asked her, what if the church in question was Catholic? Or even Hindu? Wouldn’t you want it the hell out of your government? I sure would.
Anyway, way off topic. To tie in with the post, don’t believe government, and keep them out of our lives, and that includes our religions.