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To: sofaman
Sorry, there is always a line that cannot and should not be crossed

So whom do you choose to endowe the privilege of deciding what is acceptable and what is not? Jesse Jackson? Louis Farrakahn? Adolph Hitler? Fidel Castro? Joseph Stalin? Pol Pot? Ho Chi Minh? ...the list goes on and on, all you have to do is choose the decider.

Like it or not SOFAMAN, it is either freedom of speech for all or freedom of speech for the chosen few.........I like to think that I'm part of the "ALL" crowd......

1,017 posted on 10/17/2005 5:42:07 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm tired of idiots and don't have enough ammo to shoot them all.......Jeez, I hate that thought!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Am I free to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater? No. Is that a freedom of speech infringement? No. Why? Because it endangers the public at large. Is that reasonable? Of course.

There are always limits on freedom, like it or not.

The Nazi (National Socialist) ideology and platform, history teaches us, endangers the public at large. I don't think that we would disagree on that point. It is imminently reasonable to limit freedom of speech when that speech endangers the public in that it condones and promotes violence against a segment of society or society as a whole.

Unlimited freedom of speech not only endangers society but renders many laws rendundant, such as libel and defamation laws.

Simply put, IMHO, there is no such thing as unlimited freedom.

1,058 posted on 10/18/2005 7:51:55 AM PDT by sofaman ("Get off the phone, you big dope!" Mark Levin.)
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