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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Didn't one of our most esteemed on again, off again
members make the same argument?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>"I worry about the V. Of course, I’ve been
unable to post without one pest or another for about two years now, but it seems
that since its worked so well against me, various forces have decided to try it
on everyone else. I lament what seems to me to be the loss of free speech in
Moscow."</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It appears to me that this fellow feels that his
freedom of speech is being denied because he can't say any damn fool thing he
wants without some peon who is nowhere near as smart or as cool as he is
questioning him or, worse yet, disagreeing. This person has informed us that he
is very intelligent and many of the regulars on this list have expressed
their concurrence. With all this in mind I should think that Mrs. Palin would be
promoted to at least the level of philosophy professor with all the respect and
deference that lofty title entails.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Paul Rumelhart" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com"><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "Saundra Lund" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:sslund_2007@verizon.net"><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cc: "'Vision 2020'" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:00
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] We've All Misunderstood
the First Amendment in the World According to Palin</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Criticizing someone's public statements threatens their
rights?<BR>> <BR>> Do what you can to keep this person out of the most
powerful position in <BR>> the most powerful nation on earth.
Please.<BR>> <BR>> Paul<BR>> <BR>> Saundra Lund wrote:<BR>>>
<groan><BR>>><BR>>> </FONT><A
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size=2>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-fears-med.html</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>><BR>>> Palin Fears Media Threaten Her First
Amendment Rights<BR>>> October 31, 2008 11:25 AM<BR>>><BR>>>
ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview
that<BR>>> aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice
presidential<BR>>> nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First
Amendment rights may be<BR>>> threatened by "attacks" from reporters who
suggest she is engaging in a<BR>>> negative campaign against Barack
Obama.<BR>>><BR>>> Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's
associations, like those<BR>>> with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev.
Jeremiah Wright, should not be<BR>>> considered negative attacks.
Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest<BR>>> that it is going
negative may constitute an attack that threatens a<BR>>> candidate's free
speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.<BR>>><BR>>> "If
[the media] convince enough voters that that is negative
campaigning,<BR>>> for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,"
Palin told host Chris<BR>>> Plante, "then I don't know what the future of
our country would be in terms<BR>>> of First Amendment rights and our
ability to ask questions without fear of<BR>>> attacks by the mainstream
media." <BR>>><BR>>> However she feels about the way her story has
been told in the press, Palin<BR>>> told WMAL she is not
discouraged.<BR>>><BR>>> "It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm
a practical person and<BR>>> plainspoken also, but just cutting to the
chase and calling things like I<BR>>> see them, just like most
Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in<BR>>> my mouth,
the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the<BR>>>
elitism there in Washington," Palin said.<BR>>><BR>>> "What this has
left me with is a very energized and positive feeling about<BR>>> America,
because there are enough Americans who are desiring the positive<BR>>>
change that John McCain's gonna usher in." <BR>>><BR>>> Plante
then suggested that in her next sit-down interview, Palin should tap<BR>>>
the reporter on the knee and ask, "So who you votin'
for?"<BR>>><BR>>> Palin laughed and said, "Yeah, maybe that just
would say it all."<BR>>><BR>>> "I'm gonna try that," she
said.<BR>>><BR>>>
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