@SkyServes DM sent: Since Sky Cable TV is shutting down on Feb.26, what will happen to my advance payment of 5 months? Pls reply with a plan on how you will return the advance payment. Tnx.
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When you see those “student debaters” on cable TV, you immediately click off or click out. As they’re introduced by a big booming voice announcing “COURAGE AND CONVICTION”, you see and hear the “student debaters” exemplify this with lines like: “the-OFW’s-give-us-money!!!-the-OFW’s-give-us-dollars!!!-that-is-service-to-the-nation!!!” or some such. So that’s what “courage and conviction” means. The producers who do not recognize this “idiotification” are in the same category as those “student debaters”.
You wish these students could write; people who could write can organize sentences in their head that are memorable; when you can do that, you’d have more chances at being eloquent… convincing….and moving.
We took up the libel cases last week, one was New York Times vs. Sullivan, here are paragraphs off that:
Justice Brandeis in Whitney vs. California quoted in New York Times vs. Sullivan
“Those who won our independence believed… that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; … that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle… They recognized the risks to which all human institutions are subject. But they knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones. Believing in the power of reason as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law—the argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the Constitution so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed.”
