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To: Eustace
America, land of Free Speech (unless someone doesn't like what you have to say).

How does my decision not to buy your product or utilize your service interfere in any way with your right to "free speech"? Am I somehow obligated to give money to you in the name of "free speech"? If so, upon what legal or moral theory do you base this? I would like an answer to these questions, if you would be so kind.

11 posted on 06/19/2003 3:12:41 PM PDT by strela ("Have Word Processor, Will Travel" reads the card of a man ...)
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To: strela
You are right , You are not obligated to buy anything from anyone you don't wish to buy from. And American's should let their federal reserve notes do some work for them.

I think it was over thirty years ago that people were told to buy American and warned about what would happen if they didn't. I guess America's stores tell the story.

To be honest I was thinking past the Dixie Chicks and focusing on the form of control.

It's just funny to me that "American's" would pull funds and support from a group for speaking their mind ( which is ecohed around the world )and continue to support the corporations that have sent our jobs out of the country.

This article was a bad example of the point I was trying to make.

120 posted on 06/20/2003 2:43:29 PM PDT by Eustace
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