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To: SSS Two
It appears to me that you’re arguing that we’ve got too many protections for Freedom of Speech going around in 2017, and that you think some of them should be stripped away.

It appears to me that people added on a bunch of fake "freedoms" that never existed.

I have little doubt that had anyone threatened to shoot George Washington in 1790, he would have been immediately tossed in prison. Of course George Washington was a major bad-ass, so it is just as likely that George Washington would have simply challenged him to a duel and killed him.

Jackson did in fact do this for lesser offenses than that.

38 posted on 01/24/2017 3:04:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Look for ways to expand our #FirstAmendment rights, not ways to restrict them.


39 posted on 01/24/2017 3:06:14 PM PST by SSS Two
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