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To: Grainne who wrote (99935)3/30/2005 2:32:36 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
I rather think it's good policy to remove nutcases from direct proximity to the president. Don't you?



To: Grainne who wrote (99935)3/30/2005 2:38:21 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
I think it will be very amusing to see if the folks who are very concerned about free speech on SI (which is a private website, and not a public debate area, and not an area where governmental suppression of speech occurs) will be concerned about this real violation of free speech- done by the government (the folks our founding fathers sought to protect us from).

I suspect we will not hear a peep on this, at least not a peep in support of actual free speech. No doubt they will support the suppression of opposing voices in the public market place of ideas, in the context of political speech- which will the be height of irony.

:-)



To: Grainne who wrote (99935)3/30/2005 4:45:30 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Back onto something you brought up earlier.

In your opinion, if those three activists were wearing sheets with swastikas and had bumper stickers urging the extinction of gays, Jews and blacks, would you be in favor of their removal? Or would that too violate their free speech rights? Just wondering...