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From: webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,news.admin
Subject: Fascism Lives (but so does freedom -- its a big world)
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Date: 6 Mar 88 10:40:05 GMT
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In article <3429@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
> ...
> PS. I am rather disappointed. Am I the only person on the net who does
> not think scrooge should have been booted?

Of course you aren't the only one who finds it disgusting that some admin
has decided to deprive the net of one of its more unique voices.  But what
is there to say.  The commitment to free speech in this country is rather
thin.  You will find people who say that free speech is only appropriate 
where absolutely required by the Constitution.  You will find others that
say that free speech is only appropriate when it doesn't cost anything.
You will find others who say that free speech is only appropriate when
it doesn't inconvenience or annoy them.  

The sad thing is the way it gets presented.   People argue over
whether or not so and so has a right to post (or any less right than
anyone else) whereas the real issue is whether the rest of the net,
with all of its investment of time and effort, has not yet earned the
right to have these postings available to it.

--- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)