I don't know how well this petition is doing, but feel something needs to be started pertaining to PBS, and the whole media campaign or monopoly that seems to being waged in public and behind the scenes in Washington.

As a person, like many, who have to control or try and live within a certain income to stay independent, I disconnected Cable many years ago, and began watching only the networks and listening to radio. PBS has become almost a exclusive station for me, because of the quality of "some" of their independent documentaries. Also, I gradually learned to religiously switch over from nightly local news, to PBS for the BBC and international news they provide. Though in my opinion, decidedly biased and liberal, it is definitely all the International news available on network television.

I love/hate that they feature the faces and names of those who die in our war with Iraq, as it brings it home, and forces me to always ask if I still feel the same for my support of the War, which is always that I support these men and women more each day, and our terrible politicians who don't seem to have a clue, less and less. Call it the old slight of hand, but like 30 years of political interference in Law Enforcement and Crime and the Border, Iraq is becoming a war of the lawyers and the courts, in my opinion.

The switch is that police and soldiers are enticed and recruited, into what is called a profession, with all the bells and whistles or honor, country, community, and benefits. Then after you have served, been injured mentally and physically, often some lawyer or political leader, pulls the rug out and won't fund what you know through experience, is the worst problem, with the right solution. Or the media and the politician sterotype the group, by allowing repeated criticism of the few. No other profession ever gets this type of media attention or sterotyping, except the cops and military. The final switch and the hardest to take, is the professional instruction that yours is a profession, because their is a review and legal process or wrongdoing or administrative error. These same men and women find out to late that by passing this review and legal entity over to citizens and the Courts, there is lost any peer review, and in Court NO PEER REVIEW for law enforcement. Where lawyers and doctors may be allowed hundreds of mistakes, officers and soldiers" are not given the same Internal Allowance. Everyone may be held accountable to the ACLU or the Lawyer's civil suit, in some manner or another, but jail time is seldom seen by the non-uniformed, so called professional.

To progress, because I don't even believe the childrens programing is unbiased or of interest to many middle income children, anymore, and because of the bias or liberalness of PBS, I often hesitate to donate or purchase, in other words support it. But annually, and sometimes more, I opt for sending in money or purchasing something due to the good work the independent documentaries provide and encourage.

Another down side is the sex and special interest programing that has increased throughout the years, even on PBS. Even though I appreciate and love many of the Black History reruns year after year, one can't help but ask where the histories are of the Irish, Poles, Germans and Christians on PBS. Maybe some have aired, but never with the repition and regularity as the Hispanic and Black American programs. Political objectives of instilling white/republican hate, is common by Commentators who can't have any guests without bringing everything back to Bush/Evangelicals/slavery and discrimination of the past.

With all of this and more in mind, I look at all the major networks as public t.v., advertising not withstanding, because I don't have to pay for a monthly service. I am angry because the Networks and Washington, will not and cannot seem to modify and limit the amount of sex and violence, throughout the major network timetables. The objective seems to be to numb and change America's children and young adults education and instincts to what is socially acceptable or decent. Voyeuism, assault, indecent exposure, indiscriminate sex, are social and criminal law that has been changed in the last 30 years, by the monopoly of the networks and their philosophies over our philosophies of education. With Congress inability to act and unwillingness to draw a line, even in the public libraries that attempt to control porn, it is the private non profit, that is left to represent and work for independent ideologies.

Therefore, because PBS receives much private funding from large liberal corporations for its public television, it is allowed to be liberal and I can choose whether I want to watch something or support it's documentaries. But like welfare, medicaid, and millions spent and increased in the name of the poor, the children, and the downtrodden, I do not want my tax dollars going to anymore big social programs, like PBS, that only increase and expand with time, regardless of the semantics and good bad intentions of the original idea. The lawyers are having a field day sueing cities for allowing the boy scouts to practice on public property and schools and on military bases, because the boy scouts pledge to God. What does PBS and NPR pledge to? The religion of mana, or the religion of liberalism? Maybe the religion of Socialism or social change, but it is a religion, even if God is not named. Look up the definitions of religion in the dictionary and question the legally accepted religions that government now supports, whether it is the will of the majority or not.

So, although there are many technical and FCC, monopolistic reasons for the government to reject public funding of PBS, these are my reasons. Fair is fair. I give to many charities as can be afforded, but I can stop at anytime, when the charity is not putting the money to good use or even being objective in wages, or balance of budget etc. Government funding, the Congress, and State and Federal programs, seldom if ever are stopped. There is no line item veto, there is no method for stopping government pork, when the majority dislikes or doesnt think it is a priority. Propaganda works, advertisers have known this for years. Al Gore has had a field day with it.

Please sign the petition disallowing public funding for PBS and NPR. They probably have more trusts set up, than the red cross and our churches, to keep them going in perpetuity. If NPR should fail, it would be its own fault for not remaining objective and putting America first. Average America, middle income America. Like Clint Eastwood said on Charlie Rose, there was propaganda in the U.S. and propaganda in Japan, during WWII. So why were we taught in the 60's how bad propaganda was, if it was a balance out scenario? Why do politicians not look to the propoganda they are feeding now to the International crowd, with no sympathy to the negative effect of their personal agenda's and politics, on the nation as a whole, let alone the International opinion, they seem so concerned about?

The fist fights in Congress of the early Republic, seem lost to a agenda of criticise in public and praise in private, now. Then we wonder why we are so divided. I doubt "United we Stand" was based upon washing our doubts, dirty linen, politics and  disagreement, in public and nightly around the

 world regularly as we do now. The smallest family unit can't do it that way, and we certainly can't do it as a nation, with internet and all the media. What seems only smart, is to make sure that all tax money only goes to the most important, objective, enforceable programs, with the idea that started this nation. We are all created equal, and nobody is above the Law. That should be a start. Now if our elected officials would hear the message.

 

 

 

"Permenetly" should be spelled correctly. Also, information on PBS' and NPR's leftist bias should be included, as I doubt many (including myself) watch or listen to them.