[obscene Cc list eviscerated] On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:25:48PM +0000, p wrote: > please. in my country, yelling, "fire," in a crowded theater > (that is not on fire) is _not_ protected by "free speech." > slander. etc. This example is so hackneyed, it's almost enough to make we want to write bit of experimental theater -- an audience-participation stage play where we project large images of enemies of the current Administration on to a screen and have a bunch of actors portraying a firing squad, and they only move to the next image after enough of the audience screams "FIRE!". You know, great big pictures of Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Atta, Saddam Hussein, Bill Maher[1], Mark Perkel[2], and, oh hell, just about anybody with an I.Q. over 110. Wouldn't that put the free-speech-hating Republicans in a bind -- nah, it probably wouldn't. They'd outlaw it and then just arrange for private performances at the West Wing. [1] http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/cens-s29.shtml [2] http://www.politechbot.com/p-03255.html -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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