[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

[Jim Schuler]

On 12/1/06, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 01 December 2006 03:23, Jim Schuler wrote:
> >
> > I don't see removing libel as censorship -- libel falls under the
> category
> > of "crying fire in a crowded theatre when there is no fire", thus it is
> not
> > free speech as intended by any constitution that allows free speech.
>
> The US Constitution does not "allow" free speech.
>
> I'd be mighty pissed off if any government got so uppity as to think it
> had
> the authority to "allow" free speech.
>
> Free speech is my birthright as a human being--I do not need to be
> "allowed"
> to speak freely; I am entitled to do so by the mere fact of my existence!
>
> --
> Kurt Weber
> <kmw at armory.com>
>
> In an abstract sense you are absolutely correct.  In a Realpolitik sense,
> no.