[UA] Guilty! (OT soapbox)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Alexander Lampros <lamproswc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > That's not just anti-Arab, that's anti-Islam.
> > You can get into legal trouble for stuff like
> that,
> > if done repeatedly.
> 
> Yay!  Prosecuting people for exercising freedom of
> speech!  
> 
> (no, seriously, I agree that what they said was
> preposterous.  but the whole point of freedom of
> speech is that no one gets to decide what is
> preposterous except the asshole on the soapbox.)
> 
In a way.  I always beleived freedom of speech was the
ability to get up on the soap box, but it came with
the adjoining responsibility to listen and decide
based on learning as much as you could.

Of course, I realize that there has been a major
factual error in almost everything I've posted for the
last 72 hours.  It may be the after effects of some
sort minor ritual.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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