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To: trumandogz

Federal prisons are packed with individuals who have demonstrated persuasively a complete and utter disregard for the rights and dignity of law-abiding American citizens, yet who are quite capable of quoting fragments of the U.S. Constitution in defense of their actions. What’s your excuse?


26 posted on 03/02/2011 9:41:08 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

“Federal prisons are packed with individuals who have demonstrated persuasively a complete and utter disregard for the rights and dignity of law-abiding American citizens, yet who are quite capable of quoting fragments of the U.S. Constitution in defense of their actions. What’s your excuse?”

My excuse is that I understand the First Amendment and understand that speech should not be prohibited simply because I find it offensive.

If it were the cast that speech that I happen to find offensive were banned, then there would be someone else who may one day claim that the free speech I exercise is somehow offensive and that my type of speech should be banned.

And what about one day when some people claim that the things that you say are offensive?


28 posted on 03/02/2011 10:00:14 AM PST by trumandogz
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