tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post5723523351045900998..comments2024-03-29T05:41:35.119-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: The Devil at 4 O'ClockFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-54485106700232675532010-11-19T11:51:17.855-07:002010-11-19T11:51:17.855-07:00jim: they did, and for that, if nothing else, they...jim: they did, and for that, if nothing else, they should be criminally prosecuted.<br /><br />I really need to do a post on the problems you foment as a citizen if you let your elites lie to you and cheat you and know it and yet do nothing about it.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-35733193596957922722010-11-18T14:10:22.015-07:002010-11-18T14:10:22.015-07:00Chief,
Didn't all our leaders yell fire in the...Chief,<br />Didn't all our leaders yell fire in the pwot theater of life?<br />jimrangeragainstwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126542922536584950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-44050234450597111902010-11-17T20:27:38.687-07:002010-11-17T20:27:38.687-07:00FDC,
Agreed on that line.FDC,<br /><br />Agreed on that line.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-90505503955855364702010-11-17T17:35:01.329-07:002010-11-17T17:35:01.329-07:00Lisa: the "fire in a crowded theatre" is...Lisa: the "fire in a crowded theatre" is about the only line I'm willing to draw. The recent enthusiasm for restricting speech or the written word if it offends the hearer or reader? Not so much.<br /><br />RS: The thing is, you're free to trash the fliers without reading them. And I'd rather go that route than prevent the scurrilous pamphleteer from offering them. The first situation merely offers you an unpleasant moment or three; the second offers up the spectre of us all subject to the threat of legal sanction for our thoughts and words rather than deeds.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-11658050500093067362010-11-16T12:50:58.889-07:002010-11-16T12:50:58.889-07:00Red Sand,
If you would ban literature that "...Red Sand,<br /><br />If you would ban literature that "incites hatred", your libraries wold be considerably thinned.<br /><br />When you say, "I find it distasteful to have such hatred enter my home", you are expressing the heart of free speech: You may control what you think and say (what enters your domain), but you may not abridge that right for others.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-52127087342276431402010-11-16T10:06:56.209-07:002010-11-16T10:06:56.209-07:00I have a few personal provisos on my position rega...I have a few personal provisos on my position regarding free speech, inciting hatred being one of them (what can I say, I'm a good Canadian), and context. I don't appreciate mail coming to my door telling me why all unions outside of the married man & woman are evil and must be rooted out. I know I can toss it, no-one is forcing me to read it, but I find it distasteful to have such hatred enter my home.Red Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00468789655058139527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-24244232450408733552010-11-15T12:26:02.605-07:002010-11-15T12:26:02.605-07:00"The books that the world calls immoral are b...<b>"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame"<br />--Oscar Wilde </b><br /><br />I am a pretty staunch defender of free speech and press. I just saw "Unfinished", a documentary on the hideous German propaganda films shot in the Warsaw Ghetto, ca. 1942. Nothing can indict the criminals any worse than their efforts to "look good" and damn the other in their film project. <br /><br />Only with free speech and press can we properly divine these things.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.com