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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:32:08 -0400
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- From: The Integral Differential <DEMON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Cross controversy?
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- >Has anyone heard any news about the Cincinnati (or is it there? It's
- >someplace in Ohio that starts with a C. Columbus?) KKK cross-raising
- >controversy? The last I heard, the cross somehow got damaged by a
- >crowd and was removed because it was a "health hazard" due to the
- >exposed wood and nails. Did I hear this report correctly?
-
- The Klan was supposed to put up the cross yesterday, but didn't show.
- Instead they let the counter-demonstration occur, then put up the cross this
- morning.
- They have a permit from the city of Cin., like the Jewish group got to
- put up a Menorah.
- Apparently some people tried to tear down the cross this morning and
- were arrested. That's all I've heard as of 10AM, so there could be more.
-
- >I get very nervous when I see groups of outraged people marching and
- >demanding that the KKK has no constitutional right to free speech.
- >I hate the KKK and everything it stands for, but this kind of
- >blatant call for curtailing of free-speech rights just because one
- >group of people thinks it's dangerous really disturbs me. It bothers
- >me that mobs of people are marching in the streets demanding that
- >a group of people have their free-speech rights taken away.
-
- It was pretty chilling to see hundreded of people marching with banners
- that said "no free speech for facists" and "smash facism with militant action".
- I guess they couldn't see that the cure was as bad as the disease....
-
- >I think hate speech like the KKK's is dangerous, but I'm sorry, I
- >think demands to take away their right to free speech is even more
- >dangerous than hate speech.
- >
- >Any thoughts on this controversy?
- >Ellen
-
- I'm with the ACLU on this one. Free speech for everyone, no matter how
- stupid they are :).
-
- We could take away "facists/ism" above and insert "homesexuals/ality"
- and the crowds would look very different, eh?
-
- Brett'
-