--- Dennis <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> wrote: > Commissar Brown wrote:
>
> Yes, by all means let's get rid of that reactionary First
> Amendment and
> allow the state, as do the French, to determine what is or is
> not
> historically true, or what is or is not acceptable political
> speech. Those
> who violate this new progressive order will be taken to
> court; and if found
> guilty, jailed, preferably in a camp.
>
> DP
No, that would be a terrible idea! If you removed the protection of the First Amendment, the USA would be deprived of its heterogenous and lively political discourse and might even be left in a situation where there were only two political parties, each one a carbon copy of the other, and without a single mainstream left wing newspaper.
d^2
>
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