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To: TheSlowLane who wrote (36532)	12/5/2005 1:19:50 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) of 39344

<Grandich made references to believing in freedom of speech but did little to disguise his displeasure at how JW had chosen to exercise it. > Well, as we all know "freedom of speech" is an idea, and not some sort of legal guarantee to be able to say whatever you want. The FCC routinely disallows all sorts of speech as you know. So "believing in free speech" means something different to each person one talks to no doubt... and "JW exercising his free speech" is in the eye of the beholder: ""Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity."" All you have to do is show up at an economics forum blustering about the evils of free world trade and you can scream 'free speech' all you want as they drag you down the sidewalk to jail. OTOH, in the US it does seemed to have morphed into (in practice) giving air time, parade rights, etc. to people and ideas who have little following or support, which is interesting. DAK

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