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From: pmd@cbdkc1.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: The Pornography Commission's Report
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 09:34:17 EDT
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In article <15568@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>In article <1556@cbdkc1.UUCP> pmd@dkc1.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) writes:
>>The minority report is ignored by those who cite the report in suport
>>of porn.
>
>   Come on, come on.  Can't you recognize the difference between
>"supporting" something and "defending" it?  Or is this another of
>those arguments like the one that pro-choice spokesmen "support"
>abortion?  Or that the ACLU "supports" the American Nazi Party?

OK, have it your way.  (It's a BIG difference, isn't it?)  Replace "support
of" with "defend" in my statment.  The point (made more explicit in
the part of my article you *haven't* quoted) is that those who cite
the Nixon Commission's report in DEFENSE of porn ignore the evidence
presented by the minority of the Commission.  What kind of basis is
that for a DEFENSE?  Are you the one who said the report was so trustworthy?
If you didn't know that there were two parts to the report then I
suggest that your trust is based on something else than the content
of the report itself.

>   All of these are absurd.  I can and will defend someone else's
>right to be wrong just as vigorously as I will defend my right to
>be right.  I guess that's what those of you who seem to want to
>repeal the Bill of Rights don't understand.
>
>   -- David desJardins

Love that last sentence, Dave.  Do all your quarell's over semantics
end with accusing those who are of a different opinion than yours of
wanting to repeal the Bill of Rights?  Makes me wonder how much you
have in common with those you criticize.

-- 

Paul Dubuc	cbdkc1!pmd