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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (10684)	5/31/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

TLC, I'm squarely with you. Nobody took the Nazis seriously and they ended up destroying the Weimar Republic. The KKK was also ignored. Hatred among the disaffected spreads like a contagion, and it kills. I have asked SI Bob several times why Vidrine is allowed to post here. I have yet to receive an answer. Hiding behind the First Amendment is a red herring -- the Constitution does not guarantee freedom of speech to any individual in a private forum. It guarantees that the government will not abridge freedom of speech. And now this vermin -- this piece of human excrement -- wishes to hind behind the very freedoms and guarantees he wishes to destroy. This man's posts are pure vitriol; they are not part of any serious discussion about anything. They are simply reprints of various anti-Semitic and racist sites that are rampant on the web. I wish that SI would develop a backbone and boot this guy. CTC

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (10684)	6/2/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<I'm only interested in letting him know that I don't like what he posts on this paid site...which has nothing to do with the First Amendment, and that I personally disagree strongly with what he says>> Well said TLC. Let's remember that the First Amendment covers government intrusion upon free speech. SI is a private organization and we are all paid members. Not only does SI have the unreserved right to terminate the account of a member who violates the Terms of Service, but we as members have right to notify SI and request that an individual be removed for his offensiveness. The First Amendment does not give you the freedom to defame, assault, and be generally offensive. EV definately fits that bill.