SPECIAL REPORT: Censorware in the Stacks

[Paul Spirito]

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:15:42 -0700, Tim May wrote:

>If the state-as-employer insists that English be spoken in offices, is this
>an infringement of First Amendment rights in even remotely the same way as
>if the state-as-sovereign illegalized the speaking of Portugese in Texas
>(or anyplace else that was not a state-as-employer office)?

But you seem to have gone beyond this to advocate that the State be able --
without 1A restrictions -- to forbid the speaking of Portuguese anywhere on
public property, even by private citizens. 

Paul