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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
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Subject: Re: One more time.
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:22:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:22:03 1985
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> 
>      Does Freedom of Speech cease to exist 500 feet from the Soviet embassy?
> Where does it say that in the Constitution?  Strange how the same 
> demonstration can be legal at the 500 ft. 1 in. mark, but a crime at 499 ft.
> 11 in., a distance of 2 inches.
> 
Embassies are not part of the United States, they are small little
territorial concessions to foriegn countries to which we expect similar
concessions in their countries.  It's called diplomacy, it's how countries
talk at all.

Notice that nowhere in the Constitution that you have the right to
demonstrate at all.  The right for peaceful assembly are subject to
the same sort of restrictions as freedom of speech.

>      (Isn't it also strange that demonstrations are permitted in front of the 
> South African embassy, that of a NON-Communist government?)
> 

I guess living in the DEC frozen wasteland has turned your brain to slush.
It is illegal to demonstrate in front of the South African Embassy, also.
The police arrest people every single day for it, it's even gotten 
fashionable for people to go down there and demonstrate so they can get
arrested for the significance of it.

It's amazing that the majority of net.cranks have such a poor understanding
of world events or Constitutional principles.

-Ron