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To: Paul Ross
I am more and more convinced that CATO needs to be taken apart root and branch,

This is what you said and I never claimed anything else, your straw-man lie notwithstanding. Censorship was never mentioned or intimated by me. I said stifling, which is exactly what you advocate.

You become more amusing by the moment. LOL

110 posted on 02/06/2004 9:02:53 AM PST by Protagoras (When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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To: Protagoras; Willie Green; harpseal; chimera
This is what you said and I never claimed anything else

Au contraire, contextually it is clear that my statement "Taken apart root and branch" means by exposure. No more of CATO's agents and ilk being allowed to crawl back under the rock to escape the light of day without such exposure, 'your straw-man lie notwithstanding'.

'Stifling' of speech is typically and generally understood to mean censorship. Exposure may in fact, and indirectly, 'stifle' you...if you don't have the courage of your convictions...but it is unimportant and irrelevant to the position I advocate. But if you were in fact 'stifled', it would be by your own timidity.

Personally, in fact, I would rather you spoke more...and so that you can be more thoroughly debunked. So that your cause can be discredited and loses any public influence, because it doesn't deserve it any more.

113 posted on 02/06/2004 9:17:31 AM PST by Paul Ross ("A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country any more."-President Ronald Reagan)
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