This time, Hannibal, I agree with you 100%.

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: http://www.newnation.org/Archives/Millard-My-Speech-is-Good-Yours-is-Evil.html

: Please click on the above link, to appreciate the full humor!
:                                 MY SPEECH IS GOOD,
:                                     YOURS IS EVIL

:                                   by H. Millard (c) 2000 

:         Not long ago, according to news reports, a Jewish
: group announced
:         that it was teaming up with various internet providers

: to censor and
:         stop the publication of what the group doesn't want
: people to see or
:         read. We've seen the same thing from Christian groups
: also, but the
:         major difference is that the Christian groups mostly
: want to censor free
:         speech rights relating to sexual matters, while the
: Jewish group is after
:         political and philosophical speech.

:         The Jewish group often labels these things that they
: don't want people
:         to see or read: "bigotry, hate, racist,
: anti-Semitic." Now, if the call to
:         censor free speech was aimed exclusively at on-line
: threats, this would
:         be one thing, but chillingly, the call is to censor
: virtually any free speech
:         that the Jewish group doesn't like, and this is
: accomplished through the
:         simple device of labeling any speech it doesn't like
: with one of the
:         aforementioned boogey man words. 

:         Those who set themselves up as Lords of Speech and try
: to restrict free
:         speech, need to be reminded that petty tyrants
: throughout history have
:         always used some fine sounding phrases and words to
: deny civil rights to
:         others, and to censor speech that the petty tyrants
: didn't like. 

:         Consider the history of the Talmud, a book revered by
: Jews, as just one
:         example of what happens when the small-minded among us
: have their
:         way. Over the centuries, the Talmud was censored,
: re-written, burned,
:         and banned, because various petty tyrants believed it
: was
:         "anti-Christian," or "evil" or
: sanctioned "baby sacrifices," or any of a host
:         of other "hateful,bigoted,racist" things. 

:         Because the Talmud was so labeled, mobs in various
: nations were
:         worked up into a frenzy at different times, and the
: result was often
:         violent acts against Jews based, not on a fair reading
: of the
:         Talmud---which, remember, was banned and couldn't be
: read---but
:         upon the characterizations of what it said by those
: who put the hateful
:         characterizations on it. 

:         Perhaps, if the people were able to read the Talmud
: they would have
:         come to different conclusions as to its content and
: much of the violence
:         directed at Jews, would have been prevented. Perhaps
: there might not
:         even have been a Holocaust. 

:         The place for ideas,whether we like them or not, is
: right out there in
:         front of us. The founders of this nation realized
: that, and gave us, not
:         the l0th or l2th or 14th Amendment to protect free
: speech. Instead, they
:         put our protections for free speech right in the very
: first amendment.

:         It is the First Amendment which is the wellspring of
: our democracy. It is
:         from the First Amendment that all freedoms flow.
: Without the right to
:         free speech and expression, no other freedoms are
: genuine. 

:         One of the methods used by petty tyrants in their
: quest to keep speech
:         that they don't like stiffled, is to take a worst case
: example, say,
:         something like "Kill all_____(fill in the
: blank)," label it "hate speech" and
:         then lump all other speech they don't like under this
: worst case
:         example. Another method used by the petty tyrants is
: to take a
:         particularly gruesome crime, claim that the crime was
: due to race or
:         other characteristic such as sexual orientation, and
: then claim that those
:         who committed the crime were motivated by hate speech
: they read or
:         heard. 

:         All freedom-loving citizens should resist all calls at
: censorship, and
:         particularly those that call for censoring political
: and philosophical
:         speech, which is what seems to be happening with this
: call to censor the
:         internet. 

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: Edited by Hannibal: It is amazing how sometimes you can
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