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To: Boot Hill
...the Quigley's actually made the anti-Semitic comments that were alleged they made...

So? Even being as bad as it is, isn't that kind of speech protected by the 1st Amendment? Even if the recordings were legal, how can one be prosecuted and convicted for verbalizing one's fantasies? How many times have we heard from law enforment officers, "Until an actual crime is committed..."

137 posted on 03/03/2004 7:07:42 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do a little dance...make a little love...get down tonight.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"So? Even being as bad as it is, isn't that kind of speech protected by the 1st Amendment?"

Yes it is (or should be), but it is not protected from someone else labeling such speech anti-Semitic. That is what the article was about, the results of the defamation suit brought by Quigley against the ADL for publicly calling Quigley an anti-Semite.

--Boot Hill

139 posted on 03/03/2004 7:17:22 AM PST by Boot Hill (America: Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies.)
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