On Apr 30 1996 at 19:38:55, angels@wavenet.com wrote:

If it were permitted to kill those who disagreed with you, then no one would be free to speak their mind at all, for fear of the consequences.

A person's freedom of speech is reduced by being afraid of the consequences of that speech. Likewise, a person's freedom of speech is improved by being less afraid of the consequences. Therefor, we can scrap the first amendment, and just drink plenty of beer.