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To: Tax-chick
It's not "viewpoint discrimination," but consequences for actions.

I guess those guys who threw tea into Boston Harbor were wrong also, then, in destroying property to stand up to tyranny.

84 posted on 08/22/2012 10:28:28 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
I guess those guys who threw tea into Boston Harbor were wrong also, then, in destroying property to stand up to tyranny.

That's open for discussion, if a person has nothing else to do. Certainly a case can be made that destroying property to make a political statement is wrong, and an additional case can be made that destroying property to make a political statement is counterproductive. A separate case can be made for the principle that a person who breaks the law to make a political statement should expect to face legal consequences. All these cases stand or fall independently of the content of the political views stated.

108 posted on 08/22/2012 11:40:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall.)
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