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Re: Free Speech

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From: Larry Phillips
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:00
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Hartmann Schaffer wrote:

>> In short, in accordance with recent Supreme Court of Canada findings,
>> there are acceptable abridgments to Canadian Charter rights to free
>> speech.

> True, but ...
> 
> 1. I am afraid that limiting the right of free speech more often
> makes      martyrs out of morons.

Tell that to the government. Do it at election time.

> 2. I would rather know what idiocies are spread and deal with them
> than force those morons to spread their nonsense in the underground.

See response to (1) above.

> This said, I have to add that I often wonder why the Holocat deniers
> don't get tired of spreading stories that are so easily refuted and
> that nobody believes in anyway

Because they, as with our governments, realize that a lie, no matter
how ridiculous, if repeated often enough, becomes fact, in the minds
(so-called) of those they target with teir lie.

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From: Larry Phillips <larryp@bc.rogers.wave.ca>
Subject: Re: Free Speech
Date: 1998/01/16
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