>Which goes to show that "liberals" and "social democrats" can be just
>as deadly enemies of freedom of the press and freedom of speech as
>Tories or Republicans, nay even more dangerous since they can
>cloak their repesssiveness with a progressive-sounding veneer.
Who are you talking about? I don't know of any social democrats or American liberals who approve of British libel law. Most of the "free speech" fanatics you're likely to come across are soc dems/liberals or wacky libertarians.
Doug