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To: DiogenesLamp
I am of the Burkean school of conservative thought, and anarchy begats fewer rights than does civilization. You cannot have civilization without inherent restraint of bad behavior, and as Burke said, "and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. "

Whatever. As long as you understand that you want to restrict Free Speech rights in pursuit of your civilized world. In my civilized world (USA c. 2017), we don't imprison people for their political expression, no matter how crude. Imprisoning people for political beliefs seems a little uncivilized to me.

56 posted on 01/24/2017 3:40:33 PM PST by SSS Two
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To: SSS Two
Whatever. As long as you understand that you want to restrict Free Speech rights in pursuit of your civilized world.

No sir. I deny with your attempts to force a faulty and incorrect definition on me. It is *YOU* sir who are attempting to restrict freedom by attacking part of it's foundation.

You are trying to fabricate a false and deadly "freedom" to indulge what is obviously an extremist libertarian streak in yourself. You are the sort that will throw a rock at the Hornets nest and then blame the Hornets for stinging you.

"Freedom" is a civil construct, and within the scope of our society it implies a set of generally understood rules regarding personal space and bodily integrity.

Threatening the life of a governing official exceeds the framework we know as "freedom" within a civil society.

To give you a better grasp of the concept, only a King is "free" to do whatever he wants. Normal people must respect other people's right to live and be "free" too, and threatening to kill them is a breach of the implicit contract that civil society exerts on it's members.

If you want to behave like a barbarian, it is reasonable to treat you like one and toss you in a cage. You breach the social contract and your loss of freedom is on you.

59 posted on 01/24/2017 3:50:28 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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