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To: Admiral_Zeon

So what is she saying? Individuals have free speech rights but collections of individuals do not? Seems like a dangerous proposition.


5 posted on 09/17/2009 2:13:21 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: matt1234

And if so, does that extend to Unions as well?


11 posted on 09/17/2009 2:15:08 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: matt1234

Interestingly some on the left hold the opposite view. Some think free speech is a collective and not an individual right.


12 posted on 09/17/2009 2:15:56 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: matt1234

Corporations are not just collections of individuals. They are separate legal entities. An individual can chhose to speak either in his own name, or in the name of an unincorporated group of people, or on behalf of a corporation. These are distinct.


17 posted on 09/17/2009 2:17:00 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: matt1234
Nothing can be more dangerous when the Government says the right to free speech only applies under a specific cicumstance.
27 posted on 09/17/2009 2:22:11 PM PDT by Admiral_Zeon
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To: matt1234

Unless the collection of individuals is a union then of course they have rights we never even imagined.


37 posted on 09/17/2009 2:26:28 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: matt1234
Individuals have free speech rights but collections of individuals do not?

No I don't think she said that. She implies that corporations as corporate entities do not enjoy the same rights as individuals or groups of individuals. I don't necessarily disagree with her.

63 posted on 09/17/2009 2:49:32 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: matt1234

corporations are not individuals and cannot have rights.

we can peacably assemble and petition our government as groups, but cannot claim individual rights as a collective...

flame away.

t


109 posted on 09/17/2009 3:51:29 PM PDT by teeman8r (i liked GWB... really, i did.)
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