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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: "Free Speech" according to Sykora
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 10:00:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 10:00:14 1986
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> As far as I'm concerned, the right of free speech is the right not to
> be prevented from speaking, it is not the right to be supplied with a
> microphone aor an auditorium at another's expense.  Nor is it the
> right to be heard, i.e., the right to have an audience.
> 
> Mike Sykora

Your definition of "free speech" would go over quite well with the
Communist Party of the USSR, the National Socialists of Germany,
P.W. Botha of South Africa, and all other dictators throughout the
world.
"Sure, say whatever you like in your closet, but as soon as you
speak to any other people in public places you will be arrested."
 
Please explain to me how this definition of "free speech" differs
from dictatorship?
               disgusted,
               tim sevener    whuxn!orb