On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
Jim, the First Amendment is a fine thing, but it's got very little resemblence to twentieth-century US government practice :-)
Actually it does.
Non-electronic speech and press gotten better treatment, mostly, since we've gotten away from the days of the Schenk case, but electronic speech has been heavily censored and controlled, particularly under the Roosevelt-inspired monopoly over the airwaves.
Irrelevant.
But even the writers of that pro-central-government batch of political compromise called the US Constitution appear to have considered laws against fraud, slander, and libel to be reasonable grounds for laws, and in some cases for duels.
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