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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Illegal Overthrow of Government
Message-ID: <396@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 15-May-85 22:06:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.396
Posted: Wed May 15 22:06:09 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 03:01:13 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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Now look, guys, I hate racism and neo-Nazism as much as anyone else, and
I've bitched out Don Black here, but I think some people are letting
themselves get carried away.  Specifically, what is this crap about throwing
Black's ilk in jail for advocating the overthrow of the government by
illegal means?  Do you people have no respect for your own rights?  Don't
you see how this sort of action leads to a general weakening of the
standards for the use of force by government in this country?  And, if
indeed you are the sort of cretin who advocates throwing people in jail for
disagreeing with the government and saying it ought to be changed by some
means other than a Constitutional Convention (the only legal way to change
the whole thing), why not JOIN Don Black et. al.?  I am very sure they would
be in agreement.  Hitler certainly was.

As I said, I hate Identity Christianity and other ultra-right-wing hate
groups and I wish they would dry up and blow away.  But they ARE citizens,
and if we start to take away their rights, ours start to erode at an equal
pace.  Even a Nazi has the right to free speech.

Finally, I want to hear someone say they think Patrick Henry ought to have
been imprisoned for advocating armed might against the British, if indeed
advocating illegal government takeovers is a crime.  (In fact, our country
and every other is founded on exactly that: illegal revolutions.)
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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