Voluntary Mandatory Self-Ratings and Limits on Speech

[Jim Choate]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:

> 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.


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