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To: GenXFreedomFighter

Okay. . .
Let's put it another way.
If the Mississippi State Fair Board is allowed to stop this bunch from setting up a booth, what's to stop them from denying any group the right to pay their $300 and set up a booth at this public event? Suppose someone were trying to set up a Freeper chapter in ole Miss, and the fair board decided this was a right-wing organization and refused to let them set up a booth? Hey, no matter how bad these guys are, it's still political speech we're talking about.
Political and religious freedom; if you don't protect it for everyone, you haven't protected it for anyone.


37 posted on 09/23/2004 9:24:18 PM PDT by Ostlandr (Nationalist, small-r republican, fiscal conservative, social liberal, pagan. NOT a Bush partisan!)
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To: Ostlandr
If the Mississippi State Fair Board is allowed to stop this bunch from setting up a booth, what's to stop them from denying any group the right to pay their $300 and set up a booth at this public event?

The same right inherent in the phrase "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". The purpose of the Mississippi State Fair is to entertain and showcase agriculture in the state, not provide a platform for every wackjob out there with an apple box and a bullhorn.

Suppose someone were trying to set up a Freeper chapter in ole Miss, and the fair board decided this was a right-wing organization and refused to let them set up a booth?

If this hypothetical MS Freeper chapter had nothing to do with agriculture, they probably wouldn't be allowed to set up a booth there either. And I don't have a problem with that and certainly wouldn't expect them to sue everybody in sight to force their way in.

Hey, no matter how bad these guys are, it's still political speech we're talking about.

No, its the right of an entity to set its own rules and decide for itself how best to accomplish its own mission. Hey, if you (and I mean the editorial "you") want to wrap yourself in a bedsheet and hand out hate literature, be my guest. Just don't try to gin up some so-called "right" to do so in every situation and at every venue then expect to be taken seriously.

41 posted on 09/23/2004 9:47:36 PM PDT by asgardshill (Got a lump of coal? Tell Mary Mapes to 'shove it' - in 2 weeks you'll have a diamond.)
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