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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: RON BL who wrote (190899)	10/10/2001 11:29:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Personally, I'd rather live in a democracy that allows free speech, rather than under National Socialism. The best definition of 'free speech' is that people should be allowed to say 'stupid' things... and let free swinging public discourse and an educated citizenry dispose of the ideas raised as they will. As Mr. Mollard said in the piece you posted: "the state shouldn't prosecute someone who criticizes public policies in a democratic forum." Or else, what the hell did our founders fight for? "The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Brandeis 1928 Ben Franklin also said something that was often repeated during the American Revolutionary War: 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' It is no less true today."

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