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Wonderbread - I do not claim to have the answer. What you say is inherently comforting, instinctively right, but at what stage of the game do you step on dissent?
I think somebody criticizing our society, lauding (for instance) bin Laden and so forth is - however disgusting you and I may find it - entitled to do so. If you quash that, it's the first step towards censoring anything the party/prince/junta/cabinet in power disagrees with.
I believe that anybody posting bomb-making directions (with or without the shilly-shallying defence line This information is for interest only - do not attempt!) has crossed the line. But where do you draw that line? That's the tough part.
Don't get me wrong - if this woman and her clan fell under a convenient bus, I wouldn't mourn for more than a nanosecond, but free speech is a tricky issue.
I think somebody criticizing our society, lauding (for instance) bin Laden and so forth is - however disgusting you and I may find it - entitled to do so. If you quash that, it's the first step towards censoring anything the party/prince/junta/cabinet in power disagrees with.
I believe that anybody posting bomb-making directions (with or without the shilly-shallying defence line This information is for interest only - do not attempt!) has crossed the line. But where do you draw that line? That's the tough part.
Don't get me wrong - if this woman and her clan fell under a convenient bus, I wouldn't mourn for more than a nanosecond, but free speech is a tricky issue.