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To: Lizavetta
but isn't that what the heckler was doing...speaking freely, Mr. Franken?

Typical brain-dead liberal.....free speech for me but not for thee.

I'll give you that Mr. Franken behaved thuggishly, and I'll give you that he said, "I would have done it if he was a Dean supporter at a Kerry rally," rather than, "I would have done it if he was a Dean supporter at a Bush rally."

OTOH if some people exercise the right to peacably petition, and somebody claims a contrary right to speak instead of listen to those who "paid for the microphone," as Ronald Reagan's put it, I think that their right to speak does not extend to someone else's venue.

Mr. Franken's conduct was disorderly, but the heckler doesn't have a right to filibuster either. Police would not be in their rights to heckle a speaker, and--subject to judgement at the time, shouldn't allow someone else to do it in anything remotely approximating a fillibuste.


64 posted on 01/27/2004 5:11:28 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Belief in your own objectivity is the essence of subjectivity.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; All
"Mr. Franken's conduct was disorderly, but the heckler doesn't have a right to filibuster either."

I'm sorry, correct me if I'm wrong but i didn't think that "heckling" had been omitted from Freedom Of Speech.

As far as I can tell dissenting views showing up at the opponents rally or stum speech has been going on as long as there's been politics. It's part of the process.

Can you imagine if this had been a Bush rally and someone like Sean hannity had tackled a heckler? Or Dennis Miller had punched someone in the mouth for speaking up against the Persident at a rally? The media would be all OVER this! But infortuneately, like the story of Hillary's Secret Service detail ruffing up some people who disagreed with her at an event she was at. This will get no play in the media farther than what it has already.
95 posted on 01/27/2004 9:14:56 PM PST by txradioguy (This Tagline Sponsored By The U.S. Army)
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