Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: One more time. Message-ID: <443@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:22:03 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.443 Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:22:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 02:05:28 EST References: <994@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 29 > > 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