racist opinion a crime ?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>--- 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

Furthermore, it is a truth universally acknowledged, that for-profit 
textbook publishers, privately-owned newspapers & TV stations, 
thousands upon thousands of parochial & provincial school boards, and 
so on in the USA must be far more committed to historical truth than 
the French government.

Yoshie