Re: Free Speech

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From: Hartmann Schaffer
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:00

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Kenneth McVay OBC wrote:
> ...

> Although many here would argue the point, the statements above are not
> correct for Canada, which does not have the protection of the American
> First Amendment.
> 
> 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.

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

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

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Hartmann Schaffer
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
schaffer@netcom.ca (hs)

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From: Hartmann Schaffer <schaffer@netcom.ca>
Subject: Re: Free Speech
Date: 1998/01/16
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