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To: TimF who wrote (23126)	2/18/2012 4:55:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

but I think that normally defenders of liberty should do that. Allowing neo-nazis to march in Skokie (or in Chicago were they originally wanted to rally, and eventually did) supported freedom even though it was a win for a bunch of Nazis. The Nazis weren't a real threat to anyone's freedom, just an irritant. Easy to support the march in Skokie. A win for liberty in this case would seem to me to by a Pyrrhic victory. It might save this particular liberty but at the expense of greater/broader liberty. We may complain about an authoritarian government now but we ain't seen nothing until we've seen a theocracy. If even objections held by influential organizations and backed by long moral tradition, can't hold out against government encroachment, even when there is no compelling government interest, it become that much harder for others to hold out. Can't argue with that. But then I didn't think there was any hope anyway.