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From: black@pundit.DEC (America first, without apologies.)
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Subject: Meir Kahane
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 13:27:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 13:27:14 1985
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     Well, People, I have to say I never thought I'd see the day I'd have to 
go to bat in favor of Meir Kahane.  But here goes.

     This morning's Boston Globe describes a couple of rather disgusting 
incidents in Cambridge and Newton.  Kahane is in town as part of a twelve-city 
fund drive for his Kach Party, the Zionist political party he leads in Israel.

     Last night (Monday, 21 Oct), Kahane spoke at Congregation Beth El in 
Newton, Massachusetts.  Newton police reported a number of death threats 
against Kahane, and there were an estimated 125 demonstrators outside the 
temple.  This morning, he was refused entry into the Charles Hotel in 
Cambridge, where he was to rebut his detractors.  

     Kahane has the right to speak in this country, just the same as anybody 
else.  He has the right to not be threatened with death; he has the right to 
confront and rebut his detractors.  NOBODY in this country has the right to 
refuse him to speak in a public forum.  

     We all may not agree with him, but the last time I checked, Freedom of 
Speech is still in the US Constitution.


     --Don Black

     "...dec-vax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pundit!black"
      VAXmail:  PUNDIT::BLACK

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     --George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789
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