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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Shouting "Movie!" at a Fire Station (Schenck v US)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.013237.10150@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1993Jan21.185438.19181@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1993Jan21.201023.4940@eff.org> <1993Jan23.045605.16881@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:32:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.045605.16881@IRO.UMontreal.CA> simon@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca (Daniel Simon) writes:
- >
- >>>One would have hoped that these same judges and legal scholars, after
- >>>devoting such care and attention to the task of mapping out the
- >>>complex subdivisions of the free speech/restricted speech spectrum,
- >>>might also have made at least a token effort to draw a rough line
- >>>between judicial interpretation and judicial legislation.
-
- I wrote:
-
- >>Why not give us your best shot? I'm all ears.
-
- To which he replied:
-
- >I could do so, if I wished, and no doubt Mr. Godwin would immediately
- >heap scorn on the results. But then exactly the same thing would
- >happen if he asked me instead to define the distinction between
- >acceptable legislation and unacceptable restrictions on freedom of
- >expression. How is Mr. Godwin's predictable distaste for my opinions
- >supposed to help explain the courts' suspiciously different treatment
- >of the restriction-of-speech and judicial-legislation continua?
-
- I didn't think you were writing here just for me, Daniel. If it is your
- position that it's easy to draw this "rough line," why not make a "token
- effort" of your own?
-
- Even if the prospect that I might "heap scorn" on your conclusions
- intimidates you, surely your confidence in your own position will give you
- sufficient strength. And the obvious merit of your clear distinction will
- win reams of support here on Usenet.
-
-
- --Mike
-
-
-
- >
- >"Que dites vous? C'est inutile? Je le sais! Daniel R. Simon
- > Mais on ne se bat pas dans l'espoir du succe`s!" simon@iro.umontreal.ca
- > -Rostand
-
-
- --
- Mike Godwin, |"I'm waiting for the one-man revolution
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