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From: eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Could D. Black have legal problems?
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 05:21:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 05:21:45 1985
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> > Remember the famous "shouting fire in the theater" case, where the abuse
> > of free speech might be harmful to society.
> Do you really equate such nonsense as denying the holocaust
> with yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre?  The believability
> of the two (especially given the circumstances) differs by 
> quite a wide margin.

Argument accepted, the prosecution rests.
I shall defend free speech hereinafter (though it is sometimes painful).

> >The trouble is, I can't *prove* it is dangerous.
> Would you support a law prohibiting religion, even though I
> couldn't "*prove* it is dangerous"?  No, I wouldn't either.

But beware, I will be working on a dangerousness "proof".
Until I find one, congratulations, you have changed a mind.
After all, a mind that can never change is no mind at all.
Whoever said net.politics was useless??

> 			"Now see HERE!  I speak fifty languages
> 			 fluently, but gibberish isn't one of them."
> 				Scott J. Berry

The only fly in the ointment is the flanatory nature of your response,
which is unwarranted, given the quality of your defense.
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