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To: thoughtomator
And yet, despite that, it remains the foundation of the First Amendment.

No, it does not remain the foundation of the First Amendment. Freedom of speech is part of the First Amendment but not the foundation of it. Religion came first. Freedom of speech has limits. It is only in the modern progressive (decadent) era that courts of extended it to madness.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
168 posted on 10/27/2018 10:27:41 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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It's astonishing to me that EVEN ONE Freeper would support shutting down a platform that caters to free speech as the deep state shuts down American patriots' free speech piece by piece.

Do you really want to go back to the days when the left controlled the signal?

Really????

170 posted on 10/27/2018 10:33:03 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: af_vet_1981
No, it does not remain the foundation of the First Amendment. Freedom of speech is part of the First Amendment but not the foundation of it. Religion came first. Freedom of speech has limits. It is only in the modern progressive (decadent) era that courts of extended it to madness.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

What type of free speech does the First Amendment not support?

I'll answer first. Spoken threats of violence should be illegal.

What else?

171 posted on 10/27/2018 10:34:41 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: af_vet_1981

The error you are making is in perceiving the set of 1st Amendment protected rights as separate things.

They are not. They, together, form something else. Care to guess what that is?


204 posted on 10/27/2018 11:55:28 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
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