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TPaine7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 12:18 PM
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Why can't I post highly classified military information? Isn't it my 1st Amendment right?
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Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 12:26 PM by TPaine7
Why can't I post nuclear launch codes? The design specs for the stealth bomber? NSA codes and code-breaking manuals? Why can't I libel my neighbors or con rich widows out of their money with false promises? Do we have free speech or not?

First Amendment supporters claim the right to both free speech and religion. But when it comes down to it, none of them really mean it. For instance, I'm planning a human sacrifice, but I can't get any ACLU legal support. Why the hypocrisy? My religion--ancient Canaanite--is older than a lot of religions that get full protection, like say Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.

What the First Amendment extremists don't realize is that the instant they admit anything less than perfect freedom of speech and religion, they admit that ANY WORD, WORD COMBINATION OR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE CAN BE FORBIDDEN AT WILL.

If ANYTHING can be forbidden, EVERYTHING CAN. That's just common sense.

I don't like the word "purple." I find it aesthetically, morally and politically reprehensible. I've been talking to my senator about it for awhile, and have persuaded her to introduce a bill forbidding that horrible word, except in certain historical and military contexts. We expect some push-back from First Amendment extremists. But as soon as we point out that libel and slander are forbidden, along with verbal and written treason, human sacrifices and the like, they will either have to support those evils or shut up. As I said before:

If ANYTHING can be forbidden, EVERYTHING CAN. That's just common sense.


Who will join me in fighting against the word that must not be spoken? Or written?

(And be thankful I don't want to ban prayer. After all, that's no less a religious practice than human sacrifice.)
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