Re: Attention, parents of CMU students!

"Barbara Schwarz" <BarbaralovesMarty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> pfriley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (PF Riley) wrote in message
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>...
> > On 16 Oct 2003 18:44:44 -0700, chamillionare22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Nick) wrote:
> > >
> > >Barbara, I agree with your concern. I think that freedom of speech
can
> > >go a little too far. If "Freedom of Speach" allows people to promote
> > >[FILL IN ANYTHING YOU FIND OBJECTIONABLE HERE], easily accessed to
ALL
> > >ages, then there is something terribly wrong with our society. And
> > >people actually allowing it, and standing up for it is sickening to
> > >me.
> >
> > Fortunately, the authors of the Bill of Rights recognized that people
> > would makes complaints like yours. That's why they wrote it.
> >
> > >It is sad how people can be so dillusional.
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > PF
>
> You don't get the Bill of Rights at all, PF Riley.
>
> The Bill of Rights is more than only "free speech". There are
> constitutional rights that grant you to live a happy live in peace.
> Now how can they if people advocate on the net on how to build bombs
> and throw them?

Utter hogwash. There is NO constitutionally protected right for you to
live
happy and in peace. If you disagree, please post the exact words of the
Constitution which provide for it.

BTW, most bombs are not thrown.

> The constitutional right to live a peaceful life, unbothered by others
> is superior to freedom of speech.

Then why is it not enumerated anywhere in the Constitution?

And by the way, as far as I am
> concerned, you and anybody can say all they want, just don't preach
> violence and hatred and don't give tips to kill others to those that
> are crazy, and they happen to be able to access the Internet and find
> the dangerous stuff and blows innocent people up.

Here is a concept for you: The purpose of the 1st Amendment is to protect
the most unpopular forms of speech. Popular speech does not need
protection.
The more you do not like something someone says, the more it is protected.

> Freedom of speech is abused by people that have nothing else than the
> wish to see people killed.

Wrong. Freedom of speech is enhanced every time someone utters something
that another person does not like.