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Originally posted by Sir Taliesin:
Should any Government by allowed to curb what people say and think, (I'm not talking about weither the government should have the right to say someone can't yell fire in a movie theater) just because they don't like or agree with the message?
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First a bit of Metallica from And Justice For All.
"...Indepedence limited
freedom...
of choice is made, for you my friend
freedom...
of speech is words, that they will bend,
freeedom...
with your execptions."
Thank you Metallica.
Emphatic no.
Thats exactly what the PMRC and the FL sherrif who arrested Luke want. Ice-T went thorugh with it with Cop-killer, Dan Quale was on the case. It only took a few years for the LA PD RAMPART scandal to surface, validating the kind of "police" behaviors Ice-T was advocating defending ones self against. People still want to ban pornography, Pot is still illegal, some folks would love to ban certain video games. You hafta wait until your 21 to drink beer, If its not the goverment, its MTV, censoring artists in a variety of ways, although its the goverment that wont let you say c*ck or the almighty "F" word on any channel. The people who chastise there fellow citizens with "love it or leave it" rhetoric want to limit free speech as well, The right to petition GREIVANCES.
Even in America, with our highly idealistic constitution, It already happens. A few nations are far worse about Censorship and limits on free speech/expression for a variety reasons ranging from religious to political. I have only read about those though.
It is wrong to limit free speech, but it happens.
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