Re: Free Speech (was Re: BARBARA AMERO COMPLAINTS !!!!!!)

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From: Larry Phillips
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:00

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Cameron Neumann wrote:

>Larry Phillips wrote:
> 
>> However, we do not have free speech in Canada. Some speech that isn't
>> nice, falls under a variety of laws (see the statutes of 'hate
>> literature' for an example.
> 
> Don't make the mistake of assuming that just because a right is
> recognized by only one or a few countries that it only applies to
> citizens of those countries. There are many rights that are man's by
> his nature (re Locke). If a government or state doesn't recognize it
> it doesn't mean their citizens don't have it, it means it is being
> suppressed.

And if it's being suppressed, we don't have it.


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From: Larry Phillips <larryp@bc.rogers.wave.ca>
Subject: Re: Free Speech (was Re: BARBARA AMERO COMPLAINTS  !!!!!!)
Date: 1998/01/24
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