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To: LindyBill who wrote (122180)6/26/2005 12:50:08 PM
From: John Carragher  Respond to of 793931
 
i find some of his thoughts strange. No one said burning flag was like torture--''it's not possible to 'torture' an inanimate object.''

"That alone is a perfectly good reason to object to a law forbidding the "desecration" of the flag"

let him rant it is a free country... but give us the public the right to vote on it.



To: LindyBill who wrote (122180)6/26/2005 1:47:08 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 793931
 
The right should understand that the battle of ideas is won out in the open.

Madison said it, Jefferson said it, but you can never say it too loudly or too often.

If you censor speech, then you don't know when people are thinking stupid things and you can't debate them and try to persuade them that they're wrong, and maybe succeed, or at least persuade other people who are listening.


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