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To: Colonel_Flagg; DuncanWaring
The First Amendment only applies to government action.

It doesn’t say “Your employer shall make no law...”.

Tell that to the government.

We've all seen the government trample this and other rights in their desire to suppress good people doing good things. And your answer is to appeal to these rights? We've already lost that battle. And you want a do-over?

I'd ask, "How's that working out for you?" except everyone already knows the answer. Our side was compromised and the battle lost when we started using "free speech" as a license for saying and doing things that ought not be said or done.

We were hoisted by our own petard. We haven't a leg to stand on. We're sliding down the slippery slope and complaining about it all the way.
58 posted on 08/03/2012 9:07:25 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: LearsFool
Our side was compromised and the battle lost when we started using "free speech" as a license for saying and doing things that ought not be said or done.

The right did not us the First Amendment to say and do things that should not be done it was the left that did that. And the courts let them.

65 posted on 08/03/2012 9:25:29 AM PDT by Ratman83
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To: LearsFool
Our side was compromised and the battle lost when we started using "free speech" as a license for saying and doing things that ought not be said or done.

The right did not us the First Amendment to say and do things that should not be done it was the left that did that. And the courts let them.

66 posted on 08/03/2012 9:25:29 AM PDT by Ratman83
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To: LearsFool

You’re the one who brought up the Bill of Rights back in Post 7 to try to protect this guy’s job.


81 posted on 08/03/2012 9:55:23 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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