Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 09:32:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Buster <jmaroon1-AT-mail.airmail.net>
Subject: Re: never again


At 10:24 PM 12/5/96 -0500, Harry Weisbaum wrote:
>
>>You know, to me this is so fundamental as to be cliche, but it appears not
>>everyone is aware of it.  If a viewpoint is silenced, it is censored.  You
>>may agree with censoring it, but please don't try to say it hasn't been
>>censored.  If this we are talking about isn't censorship, there is no such
>>thing.
>
>>Keep in mind Mr. Punch was once against the law in this country.
>
>These racists can e-mail each other all the hate literature they want. No
>one is denying them their right to an opinion. All they are being denied is
>the convenience of having a news group to diseminate their garbage.

This is straying off topic again, so I'll only briefly comment that you can
say this about any speech.  Hey, I can lock myself in the closet of my home
and say anything I want, so how can I be censored?  It is a fallacious argument.

--Jim Maroon
The Storytelling Home Page    http://members.aol.com/storypage



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