Principle does.
Free speech is only free if it's free for everyone, not just the people who make you feel all warm and fuzzy. Dissent is the measure of democracy. There can be no change without criticism.
Voltaire once wrote, "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." "Quotations Page", http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/35376.html Anyone who has read even the least bit of Voltaire's works would know he wasn't speaking from compassion. He was speaking about the free discourse necessary for a nation to grow, prosper and reform.
But of course, Voltaire was a French rationalist, writing in 1770, and widely read by educated Americans restive under the boot of imperial Britain. The Germans didn't wrap their civic brains around this concept until the 1920s for about a half an hour. (They are doing better with it now.) So I can see how you might mistake what is clear-eyed legal logic for some mushy romantic version of compassion. It's your heritage.
Whispering treason is a dangerous thing. It is character assassination and intimidation all wrapped up with a pretty bow in the cheap paper of propaganda. If you know of treason, shout it from the rooftops, and be prepared to testify to it in court. Why? Because it's the law, that's why.
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Compassion has nothing to do with it.
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- I can't help but wonder...
- Who wrote the book of love... (n/t)
- You also can't help but be predictable
- Just another talent...
- re: "come and gone"
- how can you tar Fox, Robert et al with the same brush as 'go insurgents'?
- Easy: tar -czpf insurgents /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
- hey bro, me big mojo, you get mine ponitifications serious-like ..
- oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox (n/t)
- re: oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/robert
- LOL...suh-weet! (n/t)
- A ClearCase can be made that you should ZIP it and SIT (n/t)
- ant, um, it is clear now that this is the prologue to a flame war.... (n/t)
- Your right, Robert- I am only the Shell of the geek that you were bourne as. But please don't bash me too hard. (n/t)
- Oh, I wouldn't bash you, though I might hash you and /bin you (n/t)
- Hmmm, I compute a key collision in this attempt to hash this thing out. I think we should not cast the object of this disagreement too strongly, I'm not sure I could, er, find the class in my library… (n/t)
- It's a matter of using the framework and respecting the class hierarchy, through which one inherits authority (n/t)
- Although, through reflection, one can free oneself from the class hierarchy, and undermine its protections and the privacy of its members. (n/t)
- Worker threads of the world, interrupt! You have nothing to lose but your call chain! (n/t)
- hey, I take exception() to, umm, Calls like that! Watch where you pointer that thing! Referncing things ut of memory like that could lead to global insecurity! (n/t)
- Worker threads of the world, interrupt! You have nothing to lose but your call chain! (n/t)
- Although, through reflection, one can free oneself from the class hierarchy, and undermine its protections and the privacy of its members. (n/t)
- You Glib cat's need to be less object oriented and more interpretive before this thread turns into a huge Python. (n/t)
- It's a matter of using the framework and respecting the class hierarchy, through which one inherits authority (n/t)
- Start preparing scripting.
- Shhhh! Stick with the script! (n/t)
- Hmmm, I compute a key collision in this attempt to hash this thing out. I think we should not cast the object of this disagreement too strongly, I'm not sure I could, er, find the class in my library… (n/t)
- Oh, I wouldn't bash you, though I might hash you and /bin you (n/t)
- re: oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/robert
- Easy: tar -czpf insurgents /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
- Your "talent"
- Treason is not protected by the First Amendment.
- Just another talent...
- you really should see an opthalmologist about that winking problem
- "Nazis...in the HabitableZone...shrieking 'treason!'"
- Sky: not falling. Calling your friends treasonous scumbags: likely to stir up some resistance.
- I Was Thinking Something Similar Today
- Because it is a fine line they play with.
- Compassion has nothing to do with it.
- Depends on the situation
- Please Explain
- Only when it's "your" Libeerty
- A nation of laws
- Compassion has nothing to do with it.
- Because it is a fine line they play with.
- wonder away... (n/t)