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To: SoothingDave
I don't think it's a question of what's smart or stupid, good taste or bad taste, but rather what the 1st amendment is there to protect and permit. Speech, and opinions, that do not offend anyone do not need protection. It's the dissenting, and often offensive, speech that needs to be protected.
186 posted on 11/23/2005 2:48:57 PM PST by jwpjr
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To: jwpjr
Start with post 55, a student speaker pronounces from the podium

I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger

read posts 81,132,44,150,164,166,172, and try your best to explain to me how on earth this is a First Amendment issue. And no, majority rules has nothing to do with the bill of rights, other, perhaps, than as motivation.

187 posted on 11/23/2005 2:58:12 PM PST by SJackson (People have learned from Gaza that resistance succeeds, not smart negotiators., Hassem Darwish)
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