>JKS writes:>I'd be proud to defend the First >Amendment ina NAzi case too.< > >if the gov't cracks down on the Nazis, they crack down on >the Left, too, most often in a bigger way. A first >amendment defense of the Nazis is indirectly >defending the Left.
Elementary, my dear Mr. Devine. :) You know, FDR packed the Supreme Court down there and that was a huge influence felt in the social fabric of US lives for decades... an influence which is now waning. But all that "free speech" stuff, and the finding of a right to privacy "in the penumbra" of other rights... leading to Roe v Wade... that came through those hired-guns from the FDR and Brandeis-Holmes era. You should definitely support your local loon Nazi's right to smoke tobacco. Ken. -- The Olden Days, alas, are turned to clay. -- Ishtar, at the Deluge