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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.
5 posted on 02/11/2003 10:36:56 PM PST by First Amendment
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To: pram
When you outlaw "their" speech, they'll outlaw your speech.

Once you start going down that road it is only a matter of time before all speech is regulated by the all knowing government.
6 posted on 02/11/2003 10:52:47 PM PST by DB (©)
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