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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell)
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Subject: Freedom is for everyone
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Date: 25 Jan 90 12:21:45 GMT
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   Yitzy is wrong.  The natural and Constitutional right of/to
free speech is for everyone, even those who are opposed to
freedom.   And while I'm certain that all sane persons wish that
Hitler and his National Socialists had been prevented from taking
the actions they took, that doesn't equate to not letting them
speak or publish.
   Now, private sites certainly have a right to refuse to carry
*any* groups they find offensive.  And the folks on Usenet certainly
have the right to vote a group up or down.  So please don't
post saying, "But we're not violating free speech by rejecting
this group"; I'm not saying that's the case -- I'm just rebutting
Yitzy's attempt to limit the *principle* of free speech.


Jeff Daiell

Bill Thacker:  I see your point.  




-- 
  If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread,
  Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead.

                                   -- Don Paarlberg