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Article #8184Re: Freedom is Fragile (It erodes quickly)
From: Len
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:42
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:42
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>> They're an advocacy group whose >>main activity is exercising free speech. That doesn't interfere with >>anyone. >I don't have the right of free speech in giving financial support to >free speech in a political campaign. A judge doesn't have the right of >free speech in his court if some one interprets it as a religious >message. Someone decides to burn a flag, he is protected by others who >say it is `free speech'. >I wonder whose definition of free speech the "American Way" folks are >advocating, and more importantly - why? "Who" is a tough question. Characteristics of whom may be given daily with ease and we all know what those words are when we hear them. "Why" is an infinitely regressive question: suffice to say there is an answer and it can start with Karl Marx's vision of a New World Order, as interpreted by Noam Choamsky, Alinsky, and a few others. Jane Fonda will act it out, as will Mike Ferrell, and Lou Grant.
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