Contradictory quote of the day

[elfs]

I was listening to the radio this morning. The heads on NPR were talking about the heparin contamination crises, and one of the soundclips opened with a woman testifying before Congress about how bad heparin killed her husband. She opened with this gem:

In this land of freedom, we have come to expect to be protected and safe.

I don't know about you, but I smell a creeping tyranny by consensus expectation in her comment.

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[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

Like the Worldnet wingnuts need any further encouragement in their lunacy...and who is it that puts stuff like that on the news as if it was a sound and responsible view???

I *love* NPR, and I generally have no difficulty sorting out the slant from the data, but really: sometimes they drive me nuts. I remember, not long after the Columbine shootings, Morning Edition did an entire week of blatant attacks on guns & gun ownership - tried to make it a public-health policy matter, for cryin' out loud. They would never have held still for a similar attack on any other element of the Constitution....