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Old 09-27-2007
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Re: Free Speech cost town $150,000.

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Free speech free speech free speech.

What IS "free speech" ?

Would it be Ok for a parade of pedophiles to congregate and hold a march hollering about their "rights" to have "sex" with children ?

Would that ALSO deserve protection ?

How about a parade of nutty liberals marching and passing out flyers about plans to assasinate president Bush ?

Would that also be protected speech ?

If yes to the above, then you're telling us there are no LIMITS to our so called "freedom of speech".

If NO to the above, then you admit there ARE limits to "freedom of speech".


You can't have it both ways.

Or are we just arguing about what those "free speech" limits ARE ?
In the case of the paedophiles, I say: yes. In the case of the nutty liberals, I say: probably no.

(First of all, paedophilia as such is not a crime. It is a sexual orientation that, when turned into action, makes the paedophile commit a crime.)

As I read your examples, the paedophiles speak out their wish to change the law. This is repulsive to most of us, but their wish does not hurt anyone. The nutty liberals, on the other hand, seem to have lined out plans to commit murder. If they want people to join their plan to do so, it is criminal, soliciting murder. If all they do is talking about the general benefit to the society if someone would follow their plan to murder the President, I would say it is not criminal.
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Re: Free Speech cost town $150,000.

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I wanted to argue for the sake of finding out whether your solution was viable, or could be refined into something that was.
What are you doing here if you don't want to argue? We know what is done, and it varys some from place to place; what I'm interested in is discussing whether there is a better way to do it. But not if you can't be civil.
You've already said that you're not interested in answers.

Accordingly, you're a waste of time.

Enjoy that...
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