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

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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-12-23 15:44:34 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 23:44:34 +0800

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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 23:44:34 +0800
To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
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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.

-- 
Colin

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