At 06:17 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Sean Barrett wrote:
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Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
| Apparently so. Free speech, though constitutionally guaranteed,
| is not practically guaranteed - just look at the [[Dixie Chicks]]
| after they said something unfortunate.
Wow! I hadn't heard that the Federal government punished them. What
was their sentence?
</sarcasm> Here's a clue for any products of the American public
education industry: the Bill of Rights is a list of things the
/government/ is not allowed to do. It says /nothing whatsoever/ about
what individuals may or may not do.
In your eagerness to make a point, you may have overlooked that you
are the only person to mention the Bill of Rights in this context.
If the result of my stating position X is that large corporation Y takes
actions that cost me large amounts of money, when said corporation
has no business reason for doing so, *that is retaliation*. Being
legal doesn't make it right, and doesn't mean it's not an attempt to
prevent me--or the Dixie Chicks--from promoting that position.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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