Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!mnemonic From: mnemonic@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality Message-ID: <36940@ut-emx> Date: 6 Sep 90 15:35:38 GMT References: <11503@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <82778@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <11521@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Sep3.182712.2260@world.std.com> <11548@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <11560@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx Reply-To: mnemonic@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Mike Godwin) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 28 In article <11560@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes: >( Explanation for the sarcasm-impaired: > In general, just because it happens in the Soviet Union doesn't >automatically mean it is undesireable, as implied by Barry's >reference, even if it were a valid comparison in the current context; >cause and (implied) effect are much more complicated than such >statements suggests.) So, Gene, you're saying it might be a GOOD thing to suppress the American equivalent of samizdat publications? When you so consistently display your lack of knowledge of, and contempt for, First Amendment values, why do you profess to be so startled at the vigor with which people reject your authoritarian formulations? --Mike Mike Godwin, UT Law School | "We need a new cosmology. mnemonic@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | New Gods. New Sacraments. (512) 346-4190 | Another drink." | --Patti Smith