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To: KevinB
Thanks. With reference to your Post #49, please reconsider.

My statement stands about the constitutional illiteracy which is a consequence of America's public schools failure to teach America's founding documents and the ideas underlying those documents.

For these students to "petition the University" to remove, or ban, a business from its State-owned Campus, means that these students fail to understand that their "petition" requests "the government" to take an action which, if undertaken, would constitute an attempt to punish that business because its CEO exercised his free speech rights, as well as his right to freedom of religion and free exercise.

Sadly, we are yielding up our rights, sometimes without intending to do so--just out of sheer ignorance of the protections of our Constitution and those actions it prohibits government from taking.

59 posted on 08/27/2012 4:18:44 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

You are exactly right! I totally misinterpreted your post. I have corrected so many people here and elsewhere who think that the “right to free speech” gives them the right to say or do anything they want without repercussion. I wonder how many people who assert their supposed rights under the Constitution have actually read it. I would guess very few. You obviously are one who has not only read it, but understands it. Thank you for the clarification.


60 posted on 08/27/2012 4:33:28 PM PDT by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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