To: pram
Ever hear of the 1st amendment?
I'm not willing to give it up are you?
4 posted on
02/11/2003 10:26:07 PM PST by
DB
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To: DB
According to Robert Bork (Slouching Towards Gomorrah), the first amendment originally referred to ideas. Not necessarily ANY mode of ANY kind of expression, which it has now been interpreted to mean. For instance, strippers, "Gay Pride" parades including unbelievably obscene and offensive displays, etc. IOW, the guys who wrote the first amendment did not mean that any and all offensive or disgusting action or expression of any kind deserved protection. Written or spoken ideas were what deserved protection, and even then up to a point - ideas inciting crime weren't, for instance.
To: DB
Your version of the First Amendment has only existed since the 1960s. Our version saw this country from 1791-1965 or so. I'll take mine over yours, dude.
12 posted on
02/12/2003 8:40:35 AM PST by
HumanaeVitae
(If Eminem's music is not crap, then the term 'crap' has no meaning.)
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