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To: Harrison Bergeron
IF it were done in a communist country it is approved by the government because they are totalitarian. In the US it is freedom that allows this. The government does not direct it and approve it. The point is the government does not have the power to stop it. It's called freedom to peacefully assemble and freedom of speech. As I said earlier, if it disrupts the class let the school deal with it.

It is your attempt that has twisted the meaning of what is going on. Don't kick the mud over here.

123 posted on 04/11/2002 10:00:44 PM PDT by breakem
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To: breakem
"The government does not direct it and approve it. The point is the government does not have the power to stop it. "

Public schools are government institutions. These institutions prevent individuals from engaging openly in the practice of their own religions via simple prayer. These same institutions prevent children from pointing their fingers in pretend gunplay. These institutions hold routine lockdowns while drug sniffing dogs search the private property of the students. These government institutions expel honor students for zero tolerance infractions such as carrying aspirin or nail clippers.

Now tell me again about the "freedom of expression" demonstrated in a public school via a "day of silence" for oppressed homosexuals.

124 posted on 04/11/2002 10:38:26 PM PDT by Harrison Bergeron
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