Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.books,net.movies,net.legal,net.women Subject: Re: Anti-porn ordinance Message-ID: <640@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 15:36:42 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.640 Posted: Sun Jan 6 15:36:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:00:26 EST References: <257@hocsp.UUCP> <318@ahuta.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.books:1171 net.movies:5406 net.legal:1220 net.women:3976 Summary: In article <318@ahuta.UUCP> ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) writes: >And I don't believe that any such censorship ordinance would stand a First >Amendment test, regardless of the number of lawyers who write it. I sincerely hope you are right. However, before we go placing too much trust in the 1st Amendment, remember that the ultimate interpretation would be that of the Supreme Court: the organization which once decided that Dred Scott was property. -- "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less" -- Humpty Dumpty, the noted linguist Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick