<You say that such thoughts shouldn't be "censored" by the government. But I feel that they should be censored by society, and in a democracy the society is the government. Such ideals are dangerous and diametrically opposed to our system of society. We are a forward thinking, capitalistic, "patriarchal" society, and any views that wish to destroy our society should be labeled as such and subdued. The body politic does have the right to defend itself and to protect its turf from opposing ideologies.

When you start thinking the society is the government, you are already in really deep water as far as I'm concerned. The government has no business censoring even the worst ideas, with the exception of currently accepted limits such as incitement to violence and other clearly defined "fire in a crowded theater" boundaries. Despite the stream of horse manure that "bell hooks" spouts, I'm afraid none of it falls into those categories.

I believe that privately operated organizations such as universities have the right to hire who they want, and I have the right to tell them and everyone here that they shouldn't hire these idiotic commies to teach kids. That's pretty much where it should stay in a free society. Keep the government guns away from it.

Those who advocate blowing up buildings, and other violent acts, may indeed need to be dealt with legally. As far as the government subduing those who simply want to change our society, considering the circumstances of our own founding, we would stand on pretty thin moral ice.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.



That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.