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- LETTERS, Page 4Burning Issues
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- In his piece "In Praise of Censure," Garry Wills argues
- that liberals can support the right to express dissonant
- political beliefs without being viewed as approving of them
- (ESSAY, July 31). But there is no certainty that anyone can
- accomplish this. It is impossible, for example, for politicians
- to back the Supreme Court decision on the right to set fire to
- the flag without being portrayed as sympathetic to flag burning.
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- Richard E. Vatz Towson, Md.
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- As Wills so ably points out, the First Amendment was
- adopted to safeguard the unrestricted discussion of ideas.
- Censorship lies not in the establishment of laws, rules and
- regulations that some may find objectionable but in the
- suppression of free and open expression.
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- Mark R. Brown Iowa City, Iowa
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