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To: jlallen who wrote (19790)	8/25/2002 4:39:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

There is a difference between criticism and dissent and the retailing of lies, libels, crackpot conspiracy theories and the like.... Don't you see the problem with that? Any administration or "government official" given the right to suppress "lies" (and any citizen who takes it on himself to do it in their behalf) will be led by his human nature (ie his self interested perception) to define as "lies" what it suits him to define as "lies." That's why we in America use the marketplace of ideas as a substitute for concepts like sedition and treason applied to political expression even of abhorrent views. Even a politician can sue for libel or slander under certain circumstances, of course; though I believe public figures are expected to take rather a lot in their stride and anyway generally find it the better part of discretion to let things pass. "Petty, partisan" jibes and "sniping" on this thread are not restricted to TP. BTW. ...but these are criticisms which we all make with the intent to improve this nation I suspect that TP, being a human being with the same capacity for self-deception as the rest of us, believes that the nation would be better off if everyone "saw through" to the "truth" of whatever his points are. You think there is no un-seditious argument to be made that the election wasn't "stolen" in a manner compromising to the authority of a politicized Supreme Court? Do you think citizens (and dissenting Supreme Court Justices) who believe the election was de facto "stolen" are traitors? Seditious? And that they should keep secret that opinion, or conclusion, or interpretation of events, of theirs?