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1997-12-23 - Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Message Hash: 15a5ea2119507fdcae20cbc9ae28cd893ba002c14cdf768a65a50e7ca2972d2d
Message ID: <199712231736.MAA17397@users.invweb.net>
Reply To: <ocryb1c2i2u.fsf@ml.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-12-23 17:58:09 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:58:09 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 01:58:09 +0800
To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Subject: Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
In-Reply-To: <ocryb1c2i2u.fsf@ml.com>
Message-ID: <199712231736.MAA17397@users.invweb.net>
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In <ocryb1c2i2u.fsf@ml.com>, on 12/23/97 
   at 10:30 AM, Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> said:

>Paul Bradley writes:

>>> >Suppose RealBig Corporation fired Umbehr for his views. Would a First
>>> >Amendment issue have arisen? Of course not. In a free society, RealBig is
>>> >free to hire whom it wishes, and to refuse to hire niggers, homos,
>>> >perverts, Jews, whatever. And to fire anyone who wrote opinions the
>>> >managers at RealBig disliked.
>>> 
>>> Substitute "fascist society" for "free society" in the paragraph
>>> above and the discussion begins to make some sense. Hell, it's even
>>> historically accurate.

>> Wrong, do you dispute the fact that RealBig corp. is free to refuse to 
>> hire people for any reason whatsoever? Do you think I should not be 
>> allowed to refuse to hire people because of their race or sexual orientation?

>> Should the government be able to take action against me because I fire 
>> someone for being jewish/black/homosexual???

>Welcome to the 20th Century, moron.

Really amazing how many so-called "freedom fighters" become STATIST if the
proper buttons are pushed.

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