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To: Balding_Eagle
I did not compare the protestors to Code Pink because they were protesting. Protesting is a valued American tradition. I compared them to Code Pink because they were shouting down a scheduled speaker, denying him his First Amendment right of free speech.

Rooty was not a "schedule speaker," he was in a parade.

And you have a very skewed understanding of the First Amendment. We have the right to free speech, we DO NOT have the right to be heard. There is a huge difference.

87 posted on 02/04/2008 8:38:33 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
We have the right to free speech, we DO NOT have the right to be heard.

Agreed, and I believe I pointed that at least once on those threads.

95 posted on 02/04/2008 4:16:57 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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