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Civil Liberties

cilla4progress

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1. Finally.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:56 AM

Jun 2018

Context is everything.

How we got here, in part. I remember ACLU defending Nazis marching near Chicago in 1970s. I get it - in theory. But no moral equivalency. Can’t yell fire in a crowded theater...

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Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 OP

Finally. cilla4progress Jun 2018 #1

Justice Holmes' Full-Throated Approval For Suppression of Wartime Dissent mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #2

You certainly CAN yell fire in a crowded theater. X_Digger Jul 2018 #4

Responding to replies in the now-closed thread in LBN: mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2018 #3

Principles have to apply under the worst imaginable circumstances, or they're just preferences. X_Digger Jul 2018 #5