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Host, et.al.
My point was that you put out a lot of information with no personal comment as to why you were posting it or what your thoughts on it were.
I do not support this particular group of individuals or their cause, but I do support freedom of speech, even unpopular speech.
To the issue: Are these people intentionally trying to get arrested? Possibly. Are they being obnoxious to those around them? Absolutely. But I also see overzealous action being taken these days towards many groups who meerly want to be heard (liberal and conservative alike) and this I cannot support.
As the 'inciting hate and riot' charge, this is a fine line that we should be careful to tread, because many times 'hate' and 'riot' are in the eye of the beholder.
As an example, a conservative could charge that an ultra liberal is 'inciting hate' when they go off on the religious right or Bush or American troops in Iraq, etc. but do we really want to censor and jail such a person? Or take for another example from another thread: Ward Churchill. While I certainly think he is a hate filled man and I would dearly love to see him removed from teaching a public institution, I also vehimently defend his right to say and write his "essays".
Just remember, that the rights that protect the speech you don't like, protects yours as well.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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