On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Jim, the First Amendment is a fine thing, but it's got very little
> resemblence to twentieth-century US government practice :-)
Actually it does.
> Non-electronic speech and press gotten better treatment, mostly,
> since we've gotten away from the days of the Schenk case,
> but electronic speech has been heavily censored and controlled,
> particularly under the Roosevelt-inspired monopoly over the airwaves.
Irrelevant.
> But even the writers of that pro-central-government batch of
> political compromise called the US Constitution appear to have
> considered laws against fraud, slander, and libel to be reasonable
> grounds for laws, and in some cases for duels.
None of your examples are 'speech'. You, like many CACL, have a serious
deficiency distinguishing 'act' and 'speech'.
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