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To: tejek who wrote (156716)	12/24/2002 4:57:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1580138

I'm not sure that I would call declineing to allow a certain speaker to speak at a school function to be the equivilent of censorship. One example is that religious speaches are usually not allowed at public school functions. This isn't considered censoring religious people but rather keeping the religious ideas from at least seeming to get a government endosement. People who are opposed to Patty Murray or don't like her speech might similarly think that the school system should not endorse it. The need to avoid the appearense of endorsement is not quite as big because you don't have the establishment question but the idea of not endorsing controversial statements is similar. As for the charge that her views were unfairly categorized that might be true. I wasn't really adressing that issue. The one thing I can say is that any aid he might have given Afghanistan was dwarfed by 1 - US aid, and 2 - the problems he caused or contributed to in that country. Tim

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