From: “Tim Tartaglia” <tag@silvix.sirinet.net>
To: “RS” <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 3157f8ca9d1c3dc8370127763b4a29b9018edae4924bd6c4f3f729ee42b632de
Message ID: <199706131243.MAA26920@silvix.sirinet.net>
Reply To: <199706130521.BAA13934@ren.globecomm.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-13 12:56:49 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:56:49 +0800
From: "Tim Tartaglia" <tag@silvix.sirinet.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:56:49 +0800
To: "RS" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Flag Burning...
In-Reply-To: <199706130521.BAA13934@ren.globecomm.net>
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On 13 Jun 97 at 1:20, RS wrote:
> To allow someone to publicly burn a flag is essentially displaying our
> freedom being burned.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but allowing someone to publicly
burn a flag is _demonstration_, not destruction, of the freedom we
celebrate. In fact, supporting other's right to utter speech that we find
distasteful is the purest form of "freedom and liberty."
Tag
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