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Re: Freedom
Right on Richard!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hurd, Richard A (Richard)" <
To: <
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: [EDI-L] Freedom
> We have a lot of freedom here.
>
> We have a freedom to speak, and this can't be abridged by the Congress
(per
> the 1st Amendment) although a list owner can abridge it all he wants.
> (That's for all the people who would be whining about "Free speech" issues
> if Rich D. ever moderated the list.)
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> We also have a freedom to press the Delete key and not read a message if
we
> find it offensive.
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> We have a freedom to join in -- or not join in -- on a thread that we're
> interested in or that affects us in some way. We also have a freedom to
> join, or to leave, the list.
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> I think that the whole reason that this group took off over the original
> edi-l was we felt that our expression of opinions, facts, truths and lies,
> and emotions outstripped the charter of the group. The list owner felt
> otherwise, and is dismantling the group -- Rich D. apparently has no such
> feeling.
>
> So what am I getting at? It's like a summer thunderstorm -- violent and
> fast moving, and it'll be gone soon. We'll be back to EDI discussions
soon
> enough, but for now; let us weep.
>
> Rich Hurd
> There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land
> But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand
> Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand -- Herman
Melville
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