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To: AuH2ORepublican
So you're not really implying that displaying the Confederate battle flag is really an invitation to violence, you're pointing out the hypocrisy in those who believe that displaying the Rebel flag is tantamount to hate speech, but who inexplicably believe that burning or defacing the U.S. flag shouldn't insult or hurt anyone.

Bingo!

BTW, I agree with Wardaddy that those with Confederate flag decals on their vehicles are the least likely people around to desecrate Old Glory.

And we have another Bingo!

Two bingo's on one card! Well played!

"a fortiori"

I had never heard that term before. Sounds like what I was trying to say, though.

Also, I am not implying that someone speaking that word (as references African Americans)that only Democrats may speak, is necessarily an invitation to violence, either. Only that the courts have held that to be the case.

Curiously, too, is that protestors can make threatening gestures, block traffic, throw bottles at police, etc. etc., and that is generally held to be the 'peaceful" exercise of their rights to free speach. Then a trucker pulls his rig up on a sidewalk, moving it towards a group of protestors, stops 10feet short of them, but they then felt "threatened" by his action, so he was arrested!

It would seem to me that, a fortiori, the trucker's action was no more than a "peaceful exercise of his free speach rights, as well. (Did I get that right? I hope I did.)

210 posted on 03/27/2003 12:21:38 PM PST by steve in DC
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To: steve in DC
"It would seem to me that, a fortiori, the trucker's action was no more than a "peaceful exercise of his free speach rights, as well. (Did I get that right? I hope I did.)"



Yup, you got it. Here's the dictionary definition:

a for·ti·o·ri
adv.
For a still stronger reason; all the more.

[Latin :, ab, from + fortir, ablative of fortior, stronger.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.



272 posted on 03/28/2003 11:50:17 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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