On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > On Nov 1, 2008, at 4:15 AM, richardsan san wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Brian Lawson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> And this surprises you when we've decided it is OK to bomb another >> country "preemptively"? Can't have US citizens exercising their >> right to free speech now can we? Shouldn't we preempt that as well? >> What first amendment? >> -- >> Brian >> >> On Oct 31, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> > <http://tinyurl.com/67s4yf> >> >> i actually got arrested for standing my ground on a similar 'you're >> trespassing' after paying to get into an event...fucking pigs. >> they did the same thing during bush's rallies. fucking republican >> pigs. > > You silly little democrats are such hypocrites. I don't recall such > indignity being expressed when he kicked reporters off his plane > yesterday. I know that was a long time ago, but please! > > There's also this concept of freedom of association or assembly. You > may have heard of it: > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly> > > That means you have a right to associate with individuals of your > choosing -- usually to express political views. Look a little deeper > and you'll understand it's okay to exclude those from your assembly > that don't share your views. That's why Boy Scouts have the right to > expel gays from their ranks, so long as they don't feed at the > public funding trough. > > Those expelled didn't have a right to disrupt McCain's free speech > rights or to disturb those exercising their rights to freedom of > association. They may gain that right in an Obama thugocracy, but > they don't have that right now.
The expelled had not disrupted anything. They were sitting quietly waiting for the event to get started. Even people who had voted for McCain were removed based solely on the premise "I think you might cause a problem sometime in the future." Guilty before anything has even happened. There's a big difference between that and "I don't have enough room for you on my plane, you're going to have to leave." And FWIW, I think that was a cheap shot too. -- Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
