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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: ACLU [was: Re: Freedom of hate]
Summary: Extremism in defense of liberty is OK by me
Message-ID: <960@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Apr 89 17:20:22 GMT
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In article <3994@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
>In article <8301@chinet.chi.il.us>, patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
> 
>
>> The fact that an organization like ACLU, 
>> comes under the 
>> hellfire and damnation that they do says more about the organization than
>> it does about the constitution they seek to preserve. 
>
>I would think it actually says more about the people who only want the
>Bill of Rights to apply to ideas/actions they approve of (this is not

The English civil liberties union is careful not to irritate people like Mr
Townson.  As a result, it's just another left-wing pressure group.  Liberty
isn't free; in England no-one wants to pay the price; few even think it's
rational to pay any price at all for it.
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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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