From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:34:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment (fwd)
Message-ID: <199712291651.KAA02123@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 17:12:06 +0100 (MET)
> Subject: Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
> From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)

> >Hmmm...
> >
> >Apologies.  In *theory* you have those rights, on *paper*, you have those
> >rights, but in *practice*, you're correct, the Government has power that
> >it gleefully abuses, forcing others to comply w/ political correctness.
> 
> Well no, on paper you do have those rights, and you don't have those
> rights.  Laws have been written so that you do not have those rights.
> Are those laws consitutional?  No.  Does the fascist regime, or the
> average apathetic American care?  No.

All it takes is a small group of individuals willing to fight the fight.
Constitutional democracy is *not* mob rule.

As long as you quit because nobody else will pat you on the shoulder and
tell you how right you are then you aren't freedom loving.

Freedom is a selfish endeavour.


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