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To: H.Akston
I stopped reading there, because you're being intellectually dishonest. To silence doesn't necessarily require the use of force. I like definition number 3.

I don't give an airborne fornication what definition you like; it still involves some aspect of force.

There's lots more ways to cause to cease hostile firing or criticism besides the way Hillary did Vince Foster.

Yeah. There's how old Stalin dealt with critics, too.

I like shaming wrong people into silence.

That only works on those who actually have the capacity to feel shame, bubba.

It often keeps them from doing damage to life liberty and property, with their whacko ideas.

Too bad it doesn't work on you, huh?

What's your reason for trying to shut certain people up?

Well, when they advocate insurrection by the armed forces, or extraconstitutional force against political enemies, or armed revolt, they've kinda wandered away from the ideals of Free Republic. Those who are merely misguided fools (like you) get a pass. The ones actively advocating armed revolt and the like get abuse reported.

630 posted on 08/20/2002 3:33:07 PM PDT by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
I don't give an airborne fornication what definition you like; it still involves some aspect of force. "

Excrement. Persuasion is not force.

631 posted on 08/20/2002 5:15:43 PM PDT by H.Akston
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To: Poohbah
What's your reason for trying to shut certain people up?

Well, when they advocate insurrection by the armed forces, or extraconstitutional force against political enemies, or armed revolt, they've kinda wandered away from the ideals of Free Republic. Those who are merely misguided fools (like you) get a pass. The ones actively advocating armed revolt and the like get abuse reported.

Well look at this.

You admit you try to shut people up who don't 'live up to the ideals (as if you are the definer of them!) of free republic', which you define as advocating mayhem and armed violence (essentially things harmful to life liberty and property), and criticize me for saying that my goal is to silence wrong people whose ideas are dangerous to life liberty and property. I think you'd sooner silence someone than I would!

(be careful though, because Patrick Henry advocated "armed revolt". I don't think you really thought your above statement through)

And I'm the hypocrit?!

When one advocates that foreign terrorists on US soil should have IVth Amendment rights to be secure in their effects (like Luis Gonzalez advocates), one "advocates insurrection by the terrorist's armed forces, and extraconstitutional force against political enemies of the US, and armed revolt."

It was quite an aid and comfort to Zacharias, knowing that his computer was secure. Look at all the life, and property that was probably lost because someone thought they needed a warrant to search his computer. We'll never know for sure what was on it. I just hope for people like Luis' sake there wasn't a chance to get the jump on the jihadies that was blocked by a wrong interpretation of the Constitution.

Treason is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. I'll give you and Luis a pass, because I think you haven't thought this through. That's what my purpose is. To get you to think this through, and to silence your wrongness.

633 posted on 08/20/2002 5:53:13 PM PDT by H.Akston
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