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In article <1992Apr11.164540.2088@cis.ohio-state.edu> brian@murex.cis.ohio-state.edu (Brian K Smith) writes:
>
>  Robb Shecter schectr@ucunix.san.uc.edu writes:
>>   street for depriving us of our freedom of speech, but we can sue the
>>   government.
>  Oh come on!  
>> I've been a long time member of the ACLU.  Any freedoms (speech, right to
>>   bear arms, etc...) deals with the interface between any group and the
>>   government.  The is an important distinction.
>  It falls to the govenment to protect our rights.  This means the law should
>protect each individual's right to free speech from other individuals.  And
>the goes for other rights as well.  I can this specious logic applied to
>Locke's three inalienable rights: life, liberty, and property (changed to
>the pursuit of happiness by our founding fathers, so they wouldn't have to
>pass out land to everyone :-)  )  Imagine the exchange, if our laws had
>followed from this:

   (Story about assault being legal follows).

-  I think there's no point to that story. Assault is illegal.  I was tell-
ing you the law already, as it stands.

-  Anyhow; Is there ANY situation that you could justify action (covert or
not) from a group to disable or thwart another group (or group's activities?)

-  (To answer my own question)  There is to me;  The KKK and others are training
NOW, to kill people like ME.  This is not abstract or distant to me, it is
immediate and dangerous.

Robb Shecter      University of Cincinnati     schectr@ucunix.san.uc.edu