Dec 14th, 2010
From Think Progress:
"WEST: There are different means by which you can be attacked. I mean it doesnt have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a building. It doesn’t have to be a shooting. It can be through cyber attacks, it could be through leaking of very sensitive classified information. Regardless of whether you think it causes any harm, the fact that here is an individual that is not an American citizen first and foremost, for whatever reason gotten his hands on classified American material and put it out there in the public domain. And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts. So that’s kind of aiding and abetting of a serious crime."
Audio of the statements is below. For more on West and some of the other Freshmen crazies, click here.
I think you misunderstood (or chose to do so) the word "censuring" for the word "censoring". As I have listened to the clip several times, the word he uses is clearly "censuring"... meaning more along the lines of reprimanding... not "censoring" meaning to limit what can be said or printed. Listen carefully and you will hear the proper word.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I wholly disagree with your premise, let us say for the sake of argument that the word used was in fact "censuring." This is still completely unacceptable with respect to the principle of the first amendment. Unless we are to surrender to the demands of militarism, West's remarks are still worthy of contempt.
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