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To: Doubter
-There ought to be limits to freedom
George W. Bush, discussing a parody site.

Uh, there are limits to freedom. The First Amendment does not grant freedom to libel. The Second Amendment does not grant freedom to step out the door of a rowhouse and empty a clip at the neighbor's cat that just pooped in your flower beds (as much as I might think it should). I belive that Bush's quote in this case had a point, but was also intemperate. The website in question did not present itself as a parody site of Bush, but tried to claim it was an official Bush website, as I recall. As such, it would have been committing slander, except for the fact that Bush is a public figure, and Bush should have realized that he would be the target of slander as a presidential candidate. But that still doesn't make what that website was doing rightous...

12 posted on 08/03/2002 1:24:50 PM PDT by dirtboy
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