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Re: Freedom is Fragile (It erodes quickly)

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From: vonroach
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:48
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:15:01 GMT, Len <len@sonic.net> wrote:

>"People For the American Way organizes and mobilizes Americans to
>fight for fairness, justice, civil rights and the freedoms guaranteed
>by the Constitution. PFAW lobbies for progressive legislation and
>helps to build communities of activists."
>
>So all other lobbyists do not FIGHT for FAIRNESS, JUSTICE, CIVIL
>RIGHTS and the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Yes?
>The lobbing for "progressive legislation" is .....what?
>Or building a community of "activists" is something out of Alinsky's
>book of...what? You tell me.  Marcuse's rules? 
>Choamsky's notion of "liberty"?

This goes a tad beyond `free speech'.  Sounds like the free speech of
Marxist activists to me.
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