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From: mahoney@bartok.DEC
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Subject: Re: Re: Censorship in Canada (Zundel)
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 17:47:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 17:47:12 1986
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---------------------Reply to mail dated 24-FEB-1986 18:05---------------------


>I think the problem occurs when someone begins to express his opinions.  This
>too, is legal.  It is when you decide that everyone else must believe what
>you believe and when you spread your opinions as the truth and not as opinion,
>when you remove the possiblity of dissent, then you have abuse your right of
>freedom of speech.  That, I believe, is illegal.  (And morally wrong, to boot.)
> 
>-- 
>					The Phoenix
>					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


  I have cut part of this out.  The part we both agree upon.  No government
has the right to stop someone from expressing his opinions.  If someone truely
believes or even doesn't believe but says it anyway that is that persons right.
What the government does have the right to stop is someone acting upon
those opinions.  Such as the Klu Klux Klan killing blacks who aren't "good
boys" this governamt can stop and must stop.  The right of the Klu Klux Klan
to express these belives should never be abridged though in anyway.
The government should protect the right to disent any and all opinions no
matter how vulger or disgusting they may be.  Personally I dislike the
Klu Klux Klan, communism, Zundel and what he stands for and most other 
extremist positions.  I still believe though these beliefs have the right
to be professed by anyone anywhere at anytime.  If the government takes away
these rights then the government must be stopped from doing so.


  Brian Mahoney