Text 21886, 93 rader
Skriven 2008-10-14 15:49:22 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 21833 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Legal Strictions
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14 Oct 08 09:57, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Not really. In America, there is the 1st Amendment that allows
 RW>> freedom of speech, even for idiots.

 WD> 8-) ... I rest my case, Roy, I rest my case ... :-) :-)

You already did, a long time ago. You have no idea.

 RW>> PS - Ward wasn't aware of that until the day I planted a swastika on
 RW>> his screen and he wanted to remove me from Fidonet over it. He was
 RW>> told that such things are allowed in the US, since the Constitution
 RW>> allowed free speech. He wouldn't talk to me for 6 months after that.

 WD> Having lived there a couple of years I'm perfectly aware about the
 WD> freedom of speech thing.

BS...if you were, you wouldn't have said otherwise.

 WD> What I'll gladly admit however and which totally took me by surprise
 WD> is how far someone will take that interpretation and how far people
 WD> in (Fido) office

Office? You take too much credit.

 WD>  will allow others to take that interpretation especially as the
 WD> obvious intention is to merely annoy others ... not to express an
 WD> opinion.

The annoyance was all yours.

 WD> As a result of that episode during one of my travels I went there to
 WD> a Barnes & Noble to search for "Mein Kampf" and ... indeed ... I
 WD> found it.

Hmmmmph. You could have saved yourself the trouble. It's available at
Amazon.com/GB

 WD> Owwww .... kayyy .... <right> ... if that's 'freedom of speech' and
 WD> everybody is happy, I can live with it. Not that I'm happy with it,
 WD> but such is life. If people argue that it's a work of considerable
 WD> phylosophical value representing an important political stream which
 WD> in its historical context must be studied then that is perfectly
 WD> acceptable... for a history scholar.

What it is, is a study of a twisted mind. My interest has always been the
study of the author's mind, aka the mind of a serial killer. There's no
other reason to read Mein Kampf. However, the freedom to do so is ours,
since you couldn't find the book in your own neighborhood book store, I
assume that it isn't a freedom there.

 WD> As a private person to have it sitting on a bookshelf at home, I
 WD> would call that sickening...

Different strokes for different folks. Some got it, some don't. If you're
done reading your copy, please send it to me. I've only read it in
excerpts and would like to read it in it's entirety.

 WD> ... so at that time I went to look for the Communist Manifesto ...
 WD> couldn't find it. Went to look for the original Red Book with
 WD> quotations from Chairman Mao ... couldn't find it.

It's also available on Amazon.com

 WD> I concluded that it's an odd interpretation of 'freedom of speech' to
 WD> insist that "Mein Kampf" is freely available but the "Communist
 WD> Manifesto" not.

Perhaps you searched for it by using the wrong title. The Democrat Party
uses it as their manifesto today. :o)

You can buy a copy of the "Communist Manifesto" from Amazon for $5.95...

http://tinyurl.com/4uwme3

 WD> Is it a coincidence or is that an example of selective convulsive
 WD> sociological behaviour?

Neither. The book is available at Amazon.

 WD> I don't know ... but very interesting nevertheless ...

You just gave up looking too soon. Of course, those who know how to browse
the internet can find these things much better and much faster than you
can.

                R\%/itt



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