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To: tacticalogic

>> That is a responsibility you have to your children. It is a valid analogy if you assume that the proper relationship between the federal government and the citizens is that the government treat them as children. <<

No, the government, in this analogy, is likened to the parent who does NOT deserve the custody. There is a demand for telecom access. That demand is rightfully met by the free market. But because the government has assumed the responsibility of dictating the terms of telecom service, there is no free market. We both agree that the government doesn’t RIGHTFULLY have the responsibility to chose television access, but it TOOK that responsibility away from free society. Now that it has that authority, it is IRRESPONSIBLE to claim on the one hand that free expression does not prevent the government from regulating the cable industry, but on the other hand, free expression requires the government to provide pornography.

The only speech Ron Paul’s vote would free is pornography. And that is sick.


396 posted on 09/21/2007 12:11:21 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
free expression requires the government to provide pornography.

You appear to be telling me that Ron Paul believes that the government is required to provide pornography. Is that an accurate assesment of you argument?

431 posted on 09/21/2007 1:04:32 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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