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Old 08-28-2008, 12:27 PM   #28 (permalink)
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If we don't support their right to free speech, why should anyone have free speech? Who is going to be the arbiter of determining what isn't hateful speech?
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I'm confused by this logic.

Lawmakers.
Sorry it should be "If we don't support their right to free speech, how could anyone have free speech?" That was my point of the Sharpton/KKK tie. Sharpton knew that if the KKK's rights were trimmed in some fashion, his could also be.

As far as lawmakers being the arbiter, I dont' think that very efficient since they seem to rather blanket the whole instead of the single instance, as exampled by the TSA and other "security" measures.
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