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From: mcgeer@ucbvax.ARPA (Rick McGeer)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a ground rule in any pornography debate
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 03:25:48 EDT
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In article <2266@mnetor.UUCP> sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) writes:
>In article <10429@ucbvax.ARPA> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>>Either you have freedom of speech or you don't.  Personally, I think we
>>oughta keep it.  Defend the First Amendment, while you still have the right to.
>>
>>							-- Rick.
>
>Well, unlike you, I heven't moved to the state yet Rick.  No first amendment
>for us.
>-- 
>Sophie Quigley

No.  You have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees you the
right to free speech -- except for those restrictions found reasonable in
a democratic society, I think the wording is...not to mention that clause that
gives the provinces the right to declare any law exempt from the Charter.  Not
to mention a court system that's got a hundred years of subservience to
Parliament.  And not to mention a bunch of pretty powerful groups that aren't
overly happy with the Charter, like the PQ government, or most provinces'
Human Rights Boards...

If I still lived in Canada, I'd be a little worried about all of that, and a
little less enthusiastic about censorship.  Aren't you?

					Rick.


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