Re: [Noise] RE: Canada Imprisons People For Human Rights Acti...

[pjb@ny.ubs.com]

as i recall, you are free to advocate almost anything, as long as you don't 
advocate it by violent means.

	-paul

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> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:58:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michelle KC5KYO <mthompso@qualcomm.com>
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> > I do not believe that freedom of speech in the U.S.A. extends to actively
> > agitating for secession or the overthrow of the federal government.
> 
> The right to discuss revolt or secession or the overthrow of the federal
> government, it seems to me, is given below:
> 
> "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created
> equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
> Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of 
> Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted
> among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the
> Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
> these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
> and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such
> Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall
> seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  ... "
> 
> Now this is the Declaration of Independence, and not the Constitution, but
> it seems to me that the right to discuss "agitating for secession or the
> overthrow of the federal government" is protected.
> 
> Michelle
> 
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