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Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment




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In <[email protected]>, on 12/23/97 
   at 10:30 AM, Colin Rafferty <[email protected]> said:

>Paul Bradley writes:

>>> >Suppose RealBig Corporation fired Umbehr for his views. Would a First
>>> >Amendment issue have arisen? Of course not. In a free society, RealBig is
>>> >free to hire whom it wishes, and to refuse to hire niggers, homos,
>>> >perverts, Jews, whatever. And to fire anyone who wrote opinions the
>>> >managers at RealBig disliked.
>>> 
>>> Substitute "fascist society" for "free society" in the paragraph
>>> above and the discussion begins to make some sense. Hell, it's even
>>> historically accurate.

>> Wrong, do you dispute the fact that RealBig corp. is free to refuse to 
>> hire people for any reason whatsoever? Do you think I should not be 
>> allowed to refuse to hire people because of their race or sexual orientation?

>> Should the government be able to take action against me because I fire 
>> someone for being jewish/black/homosexual???

>Welcome to the 20th Century, moron.

Really amazing how many so-called "freedom fighters" become STATIST if the
proper buttons are pushed.

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