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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: Bourassa and Bill 101
Keywords: Quebec, constitution, perilously close
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Date: 15 Jan 89 03:39:32 GMT
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Perhaps now in Quebec it's legal to shout "Fire" in a crowded moviehall,
but illegal to shout <<feu.>>

This is just my satirical way of saying how astounded I am that people
always bring up the "fire in a moviehall" line whenever freedom of
expression is mentioned.

The complex answer to this silly analogy is that shouting "fire" is an
extremely special kind of speach, in that it is isomorphic to a physical
act (setting an alarm.)

It's simpler to wonder about the kind of train of thought that equates
a sign saying "Books for sale" outside a bookstore to making a false
fire alarm.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473