On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Logically, it is only your speech if you can stop "saying" it at any time. I doubt he could stop his execution by asking nicely.
But he's under coercion. Legitimate or not, that changes the rules of the game. He's the accussed. He can elect others to speak for him in situations where he can't speak for himself. Your thesis breaks down into, Your right to speak exists only so long as you can willingly stop/start it. So by logical extension, the suppression of speech in a 'control economy' culture such as the ex-CCCP is justified. That in fact, once one looses the freedom of speech they may in fact never LEGITIMATELY regain it. That the 'choice' is constrained is an irrelevant factor. Foo. ____________________________________________________________________ We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. D.H. Lawrence The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------