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To: Poet who wrote (32)	8/17/1998 12:46:00 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1542

Seems as if it is getting pretty easy to dance around the Freedom of Speech issue. Look at your answers. Almost to a person, they are the same. "NO, but if SI should choose to.....yada yada My vote is no. Reason? I have read some very very vulgar posts on SI before,IMO, and those folks are still around posting. So who gets to decide which bad is bad and which bad is ok? Of course if you ask me why I should even get a vote,don't. I dunno. Emile. How many more enemies will you make before you decide you are justified. Wash feet, remember? dan

To: Poet who wrote (32)	8/17/1998 12:52:00 AM
From: nycnpbbkr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1542

First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petitition the Government for a redress of grievances. "One man's vulgarity is another's lyric." Justice John M. Harlan, Cohen v. California (1971) It is probably no accident that freedom of speech is the first freedom mentioned in the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The Constitution's framers believed that freedom of inquiry and liberty of expression were the hallmarks of a democratic society. But historically, at times of national stress -- real or imagined -- First Amendment rights come under enormous pressure. During the Red Scare" of the early 1920s, thousands were deported for their political views. During the McCarthy period, the infamous blacklist ruined lives and careers. Today, the creators, producers and distributers of popular culture are being blamed for the nation's deep social problems. Calls for censorship threaten to erode free speech. The First Amendment exists precisely to protect the most offensive and controversial speech from government suppression. The best way to counter obnoxious speech is with more speech. Persuasion, not coercion, is the solution.