Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Skinhead newsgroup Message-ID: <1990Jan25.152155.1186@eng.umd.edu> Date: 25 Jan 90 15:21:55 GMT References: <1231@rsiatl.UUCP> <48215758.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <4005@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1166@bimacs.BITNET> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Merriversity of Uniland, College Purgatory Lines: 21 In article <1166@bimacs.BITNET> fischer@bimacs.biu.ac.il.UUCP (Yitzy Fischer) writes: > > I beg to differ on the last point. Freedom of speech is ok as >long as the speech is not aainst freedom and what that freedom stands >for. From what I've read about the skinheads they should not be >allowed this right. Most sane people today look back with 20-20 >hindsight and say that hitler and the nazis should not have been >allowed to do what they did. Am I mistaken or aren't the skinheads >neo-nazis? > >Yitzy Apply your own reasoning to your article: You speak against freedom of speech, therefore it is YOU who must not be allowed to speak... What Hitler and the Nazis did was much, much more than speak. Speaking didn't annex the Rhineland. Speech didn't kill 15 million people. Without Hitler to put it into action, his _Mein Kampf_ probably would have gone down in history to the same place Lyndon Larouche is headed. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions?