Charles: > Your quivering before the powers that be keeps ye from seeing that they got
nuc precedents in their legal quiver for stopping the Left, if need be.
So we should add to the weight of precedent, make it easier?
Justin:
> Holmes came around to the view that id the dictatorship of the
proletariat was popular, there was no constitrutional objection to it.
Charles: > In theory. In practice, when he voted in the first First Amendment cases,
he put socialists in jail, the quivering liberal.
As you know, in the earlier cases, Abrams, Schenk, and Debs, he did vote to penalize
speech. By a few years later, in Gitlow and Whitney, he had come around to a civil
libertarian position. --jks
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