Re: 3 - 5 - 1 - 4 - 2 - 7 - 6

In article <ukagk39gs73rjh9sntl2lb2ggncsmejpuq@xxxxxxx>,
Bill Blakely <wcblakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:46:57 +0100, Green-Eyed Chris
<cwlNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<6ac31483-2600-445b-ab71-9ca0619ee973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Sueme <dsueme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 23, 3:10 am, Green-Eyed Chris <cw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In a German court, that Mein Kampf bit would cost your fat lip a couple
of hundred bucks for personal insult.

I know that. And I also understand why the German nation cannot yet
risk "freedom of speech" with regards thier politics from 1932 to
1945. But it doesn't make censorship the wise policy.

With Dubya, Americans are only beginning to feel what it's like having
someone like Hitler constantly being thrown in their collective face.

As for freedom of speech, the Germans have to deal with a constitution
that was more or less imposed on them by the victors.

It can't be amended??

Oh, most assuredly... quite possibly with the same ease with which it is
done in the States. There's no real way of telling though. The system of
checks and balances between the legislative, administrative and
judiciary is quite different in the federal parliamentary system here.

At least German justices do not have to hang on for their lives and wait
for a new administration to come around before going. There are also
more than two political parties and something called vote of no
confidence. Germans do not have to wait for a silent moral majority to
impeach their leaders for blow-jobs to throw them out. The electorate
could care less whether they are divorced, atheist, alcoholic, gay, have
aborted or whatever as long as they do what they were elected for.

But I digress. There was recently the case of an anti-fascist group
being forbidden to use the symbol of a swastika painted over with an X.
It had to go to the highest court before being declared constitutional.
Riddikulus!
--
Chris
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