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To: Dr. Frank fan

The Stamp Act wouldn’t have bothered you a bit, then.


398 posted on 09/30/2007 9:51:29 AM PDT by Old 300
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To: Old 300
The Stamp Act wouldn’t have bothered you a bit, then.

Because (a) The Stamp Act and (b) the government prohibiting bankers from discussing their privileged knowledge of government investigation into suspects' finances are similar in the following way(s): ____________________________

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399 posted on 09/30/2007 9:53:51 AM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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Oops, see #401 meant for you.

P.P.S. And let's go further. What about spies? Are they not simply engaging in "free speech"? What was Aldrich Ames' crime, exactly? Speech, right? Talking about things that he knew, to others. But that's his First Amendment right!

Yet he's locked up!

Whither our Republic??

Free Aldrich Ames, the First Amendment martyr! That's what Jefferson would've said.

402 posted on 09/30/2007 10:45:37 AM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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