[Vision2020] If You Look Young, Don't Buy Spray Paint ;-)
keely emerinemix
kjajmix1 at msn.com
Sat Jan 20 19:47:23 PST 2007
Here's an example of legitimate speech: When someone writes hopelessly
childish, petulant, mocking, smirking, stupid, inane, tiresome and utterly
vapid comments regarding things he knows nothing about. "Legitimate speech"
can and often is all of those things. Your work certainly is.
keely
From: heirdoug at netscape.net
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com, london at moscow.com, sslund at adelphia.net
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] If You Look Young, Don't Buy Spray Paint ;-)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:08:06 -0500
Thank you Keely, Saundra, and Bill,
For making my point.
I have one question. Could either of you three individually, or as a chorus,
please define "legitimate speech"? And is "that qualifier" found some where
in the Constitiution? (I guess that would be two questions)
Do you, as the "collective" voices and poster children of the Intoeristas,
define what is legitimate and what is illegitimate? When will we know for
sure which it is? I would like to get that memo. (I guess that makes 4
questions in toto, Sorry I learned to count in public school)
I await your senergy sayings with stillness! If you wish you can send your
answers to Decopauge to color coordinate them!
lemeno, Doug
And for Saundra, my thanks for posting that again. What great publicity for
the lunacy of the left. And from the left!
And just because you can't read Right-Mind.... I will be posting may of
Dale's profound wisdom and computer prowess regularly..
My first installment:
Free Speech Redux
For my readers who havenât seen this before, Bill London wrote a Daily
News âTown Crierâ column back on 14 Sept. 2005 (Donât Bury Free Speech
In Friendship Square) where he argued that scrawling âHitler Youthâ in
chalk in front of NSA is âlegitimate and legal speechâ.
In Venom2020 today, he stands fully by that column.
I stand by what I wrote. It is legitimate to use chalk on a public sidewalk
to present your political message.
It is not legitimate to use spray paint on private property to present you
gang wannabe message.
If you can't see the difference, I suggest you take a few moments to read
the Bill of Rights
First, maybe it is Londonâs turn to read that Amendment again. Where does
the qualifier âlegitimate speechâ come from? Is it only our Intoleristas
who are arbiters of what is legitimate speech or not? Given their actions
over the last four years, I would say so.
Second, in the 27 Sept 2005 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News,
Michael OâNeal wrote the following:
In his recent Town Crier column (Opinion, Sept. 14), Bill London smugly and
triumphantly demonstrates that the âHitler Youthâ graffiti at New Saint
Andrews College fails to rise to the level of vandalism and in fact is
legally protected free speech.
One can only marvel, breathlessly, at the hypocrisy of this position. The
issue is not about whether this malicious act meets some legal definition.
The issue is much larger and is no less than the ongoing bigotry and
two-facedness of some elements of our community. London knows that if
someone had scrawled âRagheadsâ on the sidewalk outside the Muslim
center, or âN----r loversâ outside a human rights office, we would never
hear the end of it â and rightly so. Perhaps such acts, too, would not
legally be crimes, but they would deserve the censure of the community, not
labored and trivial defenses.
In my view, this Town Crier column is more hateful than the original act
that prompted it.
Michael J. OâNeal, Moscow
Hypocrisy is exactly right. Even the Moscow Human Rights Commission
denounced this act. They did not trumpet it as an expression of
âlegitimate speech.â
Again: thank you Bill London. I couldn't have paid an Intolerista to say the
things in the paper that you did. You made it black-and-white to everyone in
Moscow what the real nature of the Intolerista attacks is all about -- and
it's not about a love for the code.
And thanks for saying it again (and againâ¦). Can I recommend that you
write another column in the Daily News trumpeting this position? Please?
Published Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:05 PM
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