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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:56:44 -0600
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- From: "VALENTINE M. SMITH" <CDELL@UMKCVAX1.BITNET>
- Subject: On free speech ...
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- as abhorrent as neo-Nazism and the KKK is to me personally, I have to weigh
- in on the side of free speech also. You may ask a person to be silent, but
- I contend "forcing" anyone to be silent is as abhorrent as hate ideologies
- are. It is sad that cross-burning and Nazi-regaliaed marches occur, but I
- cannot see their prohibition as serving the ideal that the First Amendment
- is "supposed" to mean. VMS
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