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Heh, ten years ago saying the exact same words was most definitely not
"parroting the party line".
It was even less so thirty years ago. My story remains the same, take it
or leave it. I've said the same words to white supremacists as to
suburban leftist punks as to homeys as to French Irish, etc. etc.:
I don't have to agree with anything you say. I *am* obligated to defend
to the death your right to say it. I don't give a rat's ass where you
say it, even in France. I don't care where the political pendulum has
swung currently.
Chuck
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 10:38 AM, Owen Byrne wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:19:13AM -0700, Chuck Murcko wrote:
>> Probably because we have this pesky 1st Amendment thing here. Still,
>> lots of us in the States have developed a disturbing tendency to shout
>> down or (in recent years) shackle in legal BS opinions, thoughts, and
>> individual behaviors we don't agree with.
>>
>
> Except that parroting the party line doesn't really require much
> freedom of speech. Now if you had posted something from a left of
> center source, you would have been shouted down in flames, buried in
> ad hominem attacks, and probably get your name added to an FBI list.
>
>
> Besides the basic rule in the United States now is "I'll defend your
> rights to say anything you want, but if it isn't appropriately
> neoconish, well, don't expect to work":
>
>
> HHS Seeks Science Advice to Match Bush Views
>
> By Rick Weiss
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, September 17, 2002; Page A01
>
> The Bush administration has begun a broad restructuring of the
> scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy in areas such
> as patients' rights and public health, eliminating some committees
> that were coming to conclusions at odds with the president's views and
> in other cases replacing members with handpicked choices.
> ...
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26554-2002Sep16.html
>
> Owen
>