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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss
Subject: Re: Corrupting youth: Conservative [sic.] Campus Tabloids
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 12:02:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 12:02:25 1984
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I agree, it all sounds pretty awful.  Those damned "conservatives"
ought to be made to close up shop, or we'll lock them up!

Being a libertarian (note the small 'l', please) and a Republican
and a student of Jefferson, Paine, and Mill (even SOUNDS like a law
firm), I would like to note that:

 1) no matter WHO funded them, and no matter WHAT they're saying
    these newpapers have the right to publish ANYTHING THEY DAMNED
    WELL PLEASE!

 2) the reporterial (sp?) tactics you mention (concealed tapes 
    -- consider "60 Minute's" concealed cameras) have been used at 
    some length by liberal (statist-on-the-left) press, and I've
    not heard of any trials against them...

 3) Anyone on the net advocating ANY form of censorship or punishment
    or harassment (a class-action suit sounds pretty close to that,
    no?) should --
    a) get someone to post them the hassles Tim Moroney had with
       net censors, and
    b) remember that, if you can do it to them, they can do it to
       you.

Well, I tried to keep from flaming...

Charlie Martin

"Write in NOBODY! NOBODY could be better!"