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From: "T. Bankson Roach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Now do you think we need it to be an absolute right
> to express whatever rotten, nasty, clean, or loving thought we might
> have made part of a new Constitution in case the idiots can't see this
> is a already a right, or should be, provided us under our current
> Constitution?
You have the right, but not on someone else's expense.
> I think the damn theater is on fire, and I'm about
> to shout "Fire" in the theater. Is that OK?
Yes. You have the right to shout fire even if you don't think it's true.
> Does your company have a right to tell you what you can't say if you use
> "their" phone at work? What if you bring your own phone from home?
Yes. You're still talking on their money.
> Do they have the right to monitor your phone calls?
Yes.
> If so, should this right be denied them?
No. Why?
> I think that "freedom of speech" is such an
> important part of what makes the USA special, that these should be made
> your absolute right under a "revised" Constitution.
It is an absolute right. No need to revise the Constitution, especially
since it doesn't create rights.
Mark
