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To: Shylent

Funny, how they state they don't like it, but not why. FR posters, on the other hand, state that they don't like HDers, but freedom of speech requires that they be allowed to express their beliefs. Out in the open, such ideas can be denounced. In the US, we had Ward Churchill making very offensive statements, but many commentators on the Right want him to be allowed to make such statements, to show the general public what kind of people are teaching their children in colleges and universities.

It is interesting to watch Europe and Russia struggle with freedom of speech and freedom of worship. They have a more narrow view of such things than in the US.

There is a difference between supporting a person's right of freedom of speech, and supporting the content of the person's speech. That some are not sophisticated enough to make the distinction is unfortunate and a bit unsettling. These people are part of the voting public, and help support the gov't which enforces our rights.


39 posted on 02/26/2005 7:13:57 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: TheDon; SJackson
Free Republic does not allow the posting of Holocaust denial, nor links to Neo-Nazi sites, odious sites like Jewwatch, nor links to other racist and hate-filled propaganda sites.

Maybe you want to decry the lack of "freedom" here, and move on....

41 posted on 02/27/2005 6:36:22 AM PST by veronica (Got a script? Go here - http://www.filmmonterey.org/screenwriting.html)
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