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merrily

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3. Great point. Odious government behavior is different from odious private behavior

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 04:51 AM

Jul 2015

One is paid for entirely by taxpayers; the other is not. One is not constitutionally protected speech and could be constitutionally prohibited government speech; the other may be protected by the First Amendment.

No one has time for a government imprimatur on insurrection to extend slavery.

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