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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (68348)	5/24/2008 6:56:42 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542967

:-) Well, I don't think you need to risk your personal safety. It was more of a metaphor, about our duty to speak out against people who want to hurt others just because of who they are. If you don't speak out early, you go the way of genocidal countries who think "Oh they're just talking about it. Nothing is really going to happen." I was just making sure the line got clarified about free speech- the GOVERNMENT can't control free speech (without really really really good reasons)- but we individuals? We can (and do) do it all the time- some for good, some for evil- and of course the definitions for good and evil will vary, depending on who you talk to.