On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:17 PM, Jim Choate wrote:

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:

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Many of us don't believe this common belief today, that the First is mainly about political speech, is consistent with the intent of the Framers.

Bullshit.

The framers made no such distinction. A little thought will demonstrate why such a distinction is specious, and clearly politically motivated.

Any speech which is distinguished as political or not raises a question of metric. In particular, who and how. Those questions are political by their very nature. Any speech is political in nature.

Who you saying "Bullshit" to, nitwit? Read what I wrote more carefully. And read all the stuff you cut out. --Tim May