Quote Originally Posted by Redleg

The people must be the judge and jury. In order to do so they must be informed. In order to accomplish this the people must be willing to be informed and must activitily seek to be informed.
Interesting. But from my experience it is not the people who object to uninformed dissenting opinion, but those in power. The people, often as not, could care less. So if it is the people who must be judge and jury, would you agree that a touch a of uninformed dissenting opinion is healthy as it maintains the pressure of free expression and allows Joe Reader the opportunity to know and separate the intellectual wheat from the chaff?