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From: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Question for Canadians
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 02:21:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 02:21:52 1985
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Reply-To: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
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Summary: 

>> Does the Canadian government actually violate this fundamental right?

>I have to agree with Greg on this one.  I think Nazis, Communists,
>Ku Klux Klan members *all* should have the right to speak and express
>their opinions.

  Political views are one thing.  Hate literature is another.  I would 
object to a restriction of speech of political natures, (and we 
Canadians are a little more tolerant of the communist and socialist types
than Stateside),  but I can conceive of no possible benefit of 
allowing hate literature to be circulated.

  There can never be any justification for the hatred of a group based on
racial grounds.  I can understand (<> agree with, = understand) the
justification for the slaughter in all sorts of countries based on political
grounds, and thus am willing to allow for the existence and discussion of
such.  But in no way can I even comprehend of such a justification as far as
racism goes.  It is in violation of my extreme base ethic:  One doesn't kill
somebody for irrational reasons.  Hence I will fight against hate literature
in any means possible (within legal confines, however).  If this means a loss
of freedom of speech, so be it.  The only lost speech is that which, in my
opinion, *must* be destroyed.

   Tom West
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