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Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
| At 06:17 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Sean Barrett wrote:
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|> Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
|> | Apparently so. Free speech, though constitutionally guaranteed,
|> | is not practically guaranteed - just look at the [[Dixie Chicks]]
|> | after they said something unfortunate.
|>
|> Wow! I hadn't heard that the Federal government punished them. What
|> was their sentence?
|>
|> </sarcasm> Here's a clue for any products of the American public
|> education industry: the Bill of Rights is a list of things the
|> /government/ is not allowed to do. It says /nothing whatsoever/ about
|> what individuals may or may not do.
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| In your eagerness to make a point, you may have overlooked that you
| are the only person to mention the Bill of Rights in this context.
I did not overlook the mention of "constitutional guarantee[s]" in the
message I replied to. The Bill of Rights is the part of the
Constitution that discusses "free speech."
| If the result of my stating position X is that large corporation Y takes
| actions that cost me large amounts of money, when said corporation
| has no business reason for doing so, *that is retaliation*. Being
| legal doesn't make it right, and doesn't mean it's not an attempt to
| prevent me--or the Dixie Chicks--from promoting that position.
In your opinion, it is not right. In my opinion, it is both right and
/vastly/ superior to any alternative I can think of. Do you really
think that people should be forced at gunpoint to host the Chicks and to
buy their CDs whether they want to or not?
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~ Sean Barrett | Aperientur oculi vestri et eritis
~ sean(a)epoptic.com | sicut dii scientes bonum et malum.
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