[Vision2020] The BLog and More Political Contributions

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Gary,

It has not been my goal to change your mind regarding Glasebrook's opinion, 
and I'm not going to try to do that now.

The only point I'm trying to make is that condemnation of an opinion is not 
the same as restricting the right to speak the opinion.  That's all.

Sunil

>From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
>To: "Sunil Ramalingam" 
><sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>,<vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The BLog and More Political Contributions
>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:47:56 -0700
>
>Mr. Glasebook has a perfectly valid opinion when it comes to citizen Ament 
>and to a lesser extant, Ms. Pall as I've said in a previous post. I think 
>that he is jumping the gun with respect to Lamar. There can absolutely no 
>question that Ament holds Mr. Glasebrook's church and all related things in 
>contempt and Ms. Pall has voted right along with him. If your argument is 
>that the opinion is wrong because he only has got it 2/3 right I at least 
>see your point. If your beef is that none of the three are bigoted toward 
>CC et. al. I would love to hear you make the case considering  the evidence 
>to the contrary.
>
>g
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sunil Ramalingam" 
><sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The BLog and More Political Contributions
>
>
>>Gary,
>>
>>I think the distinction escapes you because, well, I think it escaped you
>>again below.  You wrote, 'I was merely calling into question the need to
>>condemn a man (or his sign?) for making his opinion known.'
>>
>>I don't think people are condemning him making his opinion known.  Maybe I
>>should just speak for myself here, so I'll say I'm certainly not 
>>condemning
>>him for that.  I don't condemn anyone for that. [I should say I do yell at
>>or scold my clients when they make public statements that get used as
>>EVIDENCE, but that's a different matter.]
>>
>>It's the actual opinion that I'm condemning.  Not the act of saying it, 
>>but
>>the content.  The right to free speech should be protected, but content is
>>fair game.
>>
>>Sunil
>>
>>