Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nazis in Canada Message-ID: <1051@gloria.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 20:04:12 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.1051 Posted: Wed Mar 27 20:04:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 01:48:09 EST References: <709@ccice5.UUCP> <374@talcott.UUCP> <538@whuxl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Church of Artificial Intelligence Lines: 17 [Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.] > > > It is dangerous to be publicly racist in Canada. (Thank goodness.) > > I disagree strongly. Respecting the freedom of speech is far more > > important than stopping dangerous ideas. > > Does the Canadian government actually violate this fundamental right? > I have to agree with Greg on this one. I think Nazis, Communists, > Ku Klux Klan members *all* should have the right to speak and express > their opinions. The case in question dealt with publishing, not speaking. I'm glad that publication enjoys the same protection in the U.S. that speech does (more or less), but I can understand those who are not. Print is to speech as gasoline is to coal. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel