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To: Sub-Driver; neverdem; freepatriot32; MikeHu; StoneColdTaxHater; libertyman; Husker24; ...
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., who is leading a Republican charge to cut public funding to the broadcaster, of trying to stifle free speech

GOVERNMENT speech is NOT "FREE" speech, and "public" funding is INVOLUNTARY funding, morons.

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson, 1779

41 posted on 01/13/2011 8:09:59 PM PST by FreeKeys ("Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." -- Dr. Milton Friedman)
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To: FreeKeys
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson, 1779

Good one, FreeKeys.

44 posted on 01/13/2011 8:18:32 PM PST by GOPJ (."Blood libel" - - when the MSM incites hatred and violence against conservatives based on lies.)
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To: FreeKeys
GOVERNMENT speech is NOT "FREE" speech, and "public" funding is INVOLUNTARY funding
Yes. And while we are at it, I move that all government agencies, and all government communications including speeches on the floor of the House, be vetted for any and all uses of the word "public," (or "society) - and any instance of the usage of "public" or "society" as a euphemism for government be translated to actually say "government."
These thugs want to blood libel Republicans, and use that to censor all the pervasive military metaphors out of Republican (but, you may be sure, not Democrat) speech. Which, as Ann Coulter points out in her characteristically pointed way, would include banning the word "campaign" from political discourse.
Let's see how they like it if a point of order is raised every time they use their trademark euphemisms. They'd be tongue-tied!
Note: What's the difference between "society" and "government?" Simple - freedom. In the absence of freedom, but only then, there is no difference.

50 posted on 01/14/2011 4:26:14 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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To: FreeKeys

/bingo


57 posted on 01/14/2011 4:40:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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