
{"id":8418,"date":"2009-12-17T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=8418"},"modified":"2009-12-17T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:54:53","slug":"letter-the-desire-to-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/12\/17\/letter-the-desire-to-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: The desire to silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want you to hear both sides of an issue? What types of people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to compete in the marketplace of ideas?<\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 3 issue of The Citizen provides us with great examples, as do current events. First, Chris Fitzsimons tells us to ignore the voices of those who feel that our government is failing us. Then, <!--more-->Sen. Kinnaird, Rep. Insko and others try to stifle Blue Cross Blue Shield from weighing in on the health care bills in Congress (similar to the Obama administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempts to muzzle Humana). And then we have the emails of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) director Phil Jones exposing data manipulation and the suppression of conflicting research and opinion on global warming, I mean climate change (doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that happen on a yearly basis?).<\/p>\n<p>I urge you to evaluate the data yourselves. The Elon poll on government performance is at elon.edu. There you will find that, like Mr. Jones, Mr. Fitzsimons prefers to massage the data to fit his conclusion. The [\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Troubling moves by Blue Cross Blue Shield\u00e2\u20ac\u009d letter, Dec. 3] speaks for itself: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Even if there is no apparent violation of existing statutes, we think this is bad public policy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Huh, informing customers of potential effects of pending legislation on them is bad public policy? Interesting take. Finally, for those who like real science \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like considerations of plate tectonics, precession and nutation, the variations and anomalies of the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electromagnetic field or solar flare cycles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the fraud and scientific censorship of Phil Jones and the CRU are available for your perusal and amusement at theblogprof.blogspot.com. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to provide you with the data that Phil Jones used to support the global warming argument, but it seems that data has been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lost.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Right.<\/p>\n<p>Data doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lie. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe everything you read and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read everything you believe. Keep your mind open. Get your info from the source and make your own opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Cook<br \/>\n<em>Carrboro<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want you to hear both sides of an issue? What types of people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to compete in the marketplace of ideas? The Dec. 3 issue of The Citizen provides us with great examples, as do current events. First, Chris Fitzsimons tells us to ignore the voices of those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8419,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}