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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I think you’ll find that the founding father’s still accepted the need for certain restrictions on freedom of speech (i.e. libel and slander laws) so that people cannot simply say what they want with malicious intent.


20 posted on 10/08/2012 10:37:21 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Agreed. Free speech is not the right to slander others.
If the feds choose which ideas and thoughts may be debated in the public then they choose which ideas may not be debated or spoke of.

They would love for us to believe free speech is something it is not. PC/diversity has already stifled much free speech.
Mohommed may finish it off


26 posted on 10/08/2012 11:09:29 AM PDT by winodog
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

You can sue for damages for slander or libel, but you can’t put anyone in jail over it.


32 posted on 10/08/2012 11:28:56 AM PDT by UltraV ("Well you've got to hand it to Mitt Romney, because President Obama sure did." Seth Myers, SNL)
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