ACLU WINS ANOTHER FOR THE LEFT
Don D
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Today's news has it that the ACLU has won the court battle challenging the right to block pornography. It's now been ruled that doing that violates adults' rights to free speech. Another victory for the left. Let's bring out the nipple clips and drag dresses and dance in the streets till daylight tomorrow.
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Pornography is worlds away from art and education. I say keep that garbage in the curtained off back room where no one else has to see it.
To say that it was the ACLU that brought the case doens't mean anything unless you beleieve that America is not a place where different ideas and opinions are free to be debated and challenged. And that it should be the best argument and the most meaningful in meeting what the framers of the Consitution including the First Amendment had in mind for an open society that can take care of itself in debating ideas -- even ones that many people may not like --should "win the day."
Besides the Court pointed out that the alw doens't stop the off shore websites. And the truly most effective way to stop porn for children is with proper blocks and filters and so on.
P.S, you do know that President Clinton signed the bill into law. Geez, so you guys support President Clinton.
Finally you see the light. :DD
>case doens't mean anything unless you beleieve
>that America is not a place where different
>ideas and opinions are free to be debated and
>challenged. And that it should be the best
>argument and the most meaningful in meeting what
>the framers of the Consitution including the
>First Amendment had in mind for an open society
>that can take care of itself in debating ideas
>-- even ones that many people may not like
>--should "win the day."
>
In support of your comments, H-man, I'll offer something that was e-mailed to me earlier today:
Quotes to live by:
"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own
opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies
another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion,
because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
-- Thomas Paine, 1783
"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a
necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear."
-- George Orwell, 1945
"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional
rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that
they are extreme, but that they are intolerant."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, 1964
Well stated. You da man.
Jeff
find Don and Parabeagle at it still. Anyway, I'm somewhere in the middle. I believe the decision
was constitutional. My question upon hearing
of the decision was, "Where are these children being exposed? Why aren't they being supervised
by their #1 parental units; #2 instructional unit or # 3 legal guardian. I raised two kids and was a child myself and know how sneakly the little runts can be.
On the other hand, I find the following more obscene. True story: a young American child
on vacation in Mexico with her family, sees small children making and selling stone carvings along the road,asked her mother," Are they doing this for us?" She thought they were "acting". She, at age 6, was justifiably horrified to learn
that these children were earning their supper. To me, the fact that humans allow other humans to starve and suffer, is more obscene, pornographic, and offensive than some ugly t++t with her mouth open.
P.S: It's my understanding that Al Gore made that story up about the children on the side of the road.
When did the south end of a north bound mule get turned around? x:-/