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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Pornography doesn't degrade anybody
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:32:26 EST
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It may be that the "constitution isn't holy writ" (or even wholly
written) but the protection of the first amendment is one that
was very early established as a basic protection in which the Founding
Fathers (most of them, at least) believed very strongly.  read for
example some of the stuff that Thomas Jefferson had to say about the
Alien and Sedition Acts.  I can't recall an exact quote, but he
basically said something to the effect of an unconscionable attack on
the rights of a free people.

As far as the remark about the Founding Fathers, them's fighting words
-- put'em up!  (writer does quick but poor imitation of punchdrunk
fighter from old movie).  If you think the FF had no "feminist
sensibilities", read up on them.  In fact, as far as holding slaves,
there were some pretty strong attempts to eliminate that too, which were
thwarted in an early play of the "if we can't keep slaves we won't play"
ploy repeated 4*20+7 years later.


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		Opinions stated here are my own and are unrelated.

				Charlie Martin
				(...mcnc!duke!crm)