Category: free speech
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Free Speech, Or Is It?
I thank <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/">Craig</a> for bringing <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402337.html">this</a> to my attention. It appears that the University of Montana has limits on the amount of money a student can spend on a campaign for student government offices.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) allocates student activity fees, which are public funds, and…
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Beating the Drum
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49321">Government's idea of 'tracking' animals</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Reaction to the National Animal Identification System is shining a light on a growing problem that independent producers believe is threatening the entire livestock industry. Vertical marketing practices in the meat processing industry, combined with the industry's access to and influence on the Department of Agriculture and Congress,…
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Why The US is in Trouble
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FREEDOM_POLL?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Study: One in 1,000 know First Amendment</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> Americans apparently know more about "The Simpsons" than they do about the First Amendment.<br />n<br />nOnly one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of…
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Speech
<blockquote>Mr Irving, 68, faces up to 10 years in jail in Austria, where Holocaust denial is a criminal offence.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4730832.stm">Holocaust denial</a> is a criminal offense. I guess free speech doesn't exist there. He is wrong, the holocaust did happen but I can't believe the denial of it is a criminal offense. For as…
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What are They Doing?
The other day <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1483-Over-Reaching.html">I gave Google</a> a big thumbs up or their stance on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/20/build/nation/30-google-search.inc">not releasing information to the government</a> just because they wanted it. This was the right stance to take at the right time.<br />n<br />nNow I wonder if over at Google the right hand knows what the left hand is…