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To: tioga; reagan_fanatic; Cicero
see post #246!
249 posted on 09/21/2007 4:04:40 PM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: Guenevere; Peter R. Lynch

Well Peter, you are in for a tough road. Have your lawyer annouce a legal defense fund set up at a bank or a website and post that news article here. You WILL get help. FReepers are generous.


265 posted on 09/22/2007 8:27:55 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Guenevere; All

Thanks for the ping.

I think we need to be careful what kind of advice we give here. I would also be careful what you say in private responses via freepmail, since that will be open to subpoena if this threatens to go to court.

As I said earlier, what troubles me about this business is the one-sided treatment of a political act. If a leftist burns or destroys an American flag, that is “symbolic speech,” and therefore, according to SCOTUS, is constitutionally protected. But if a conservative patriot takes down a Mexican flag that is being flaunted on campus, that is “hate speech,” not “symbolic speech.”

What’s the difference between these actions, other than the indefensible conviction that all leftist actions are good, and all conservative actions are bad; or that it’s good to attack your country but bad to defend it?

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I can’t imagine a university president today attacking a leftist for tearing down an American flag the way this president is said to have attacked this action.


266 posted on 09/22/2007 8:41:25 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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