black@pundit.DEC (America first, without apologies.) (10/23/85)
And the beat goes on. As I have stated time and again, there is a number
of people in this country who have absolutely no regard for the rights of
others. They are out to repress Christian, Jew, Moslem, Black, and White
alike. Here's one more instance of their handiwork.
On page 20 of today's Boston Globe (23 October), there's an article about
the arrest of 7 persons outside the Soviet embassy in Washington. Their crime
was conducting a demonstration within 500 feet of an embassy. The people were
members of Action for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, and
they were protesting the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union.
Here's a case of somebody in our elected government determining that
somebody else "does not have the right to speak."
Does Freedom of Speech cease to exist 500 feet from the Soviet embassy?
Where does it say that in the Constitution? Strange how the same
demonstration can be legal at the 500 ft. 1 in. mark, but a crime at 499 ft.
11 in., a distance of 2 inches.
(Isn't it also strange that demonstrations are permitted in front of the
South African embassy, that of a NON-Communist government?)
I suggest to the net that if we, Americans and Canadians alike, intend to
retain our sacred freedom, we had best start speaking out against such
violations of civil rights. Otherwise, we'll all end up kissing ruddy Red
butt.
--Don Black
"...dec-vax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pundit!black"
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"...the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that dis-
regards the Eternal Order of Rules and Right, which Heaven itself has
ordained."
--George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789
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Posted: Wed 23-Oct-1985 08:54
To: ROLL::RHEA::DECWRL::"net.politics"myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) (10/24/85)
> > On page 20 of today's Boston Globe (23 October), there's an article about > the arrest of 7 persons outside the Soviet embassy in Washington. Their crime > was conducting a demonstration within 500 feet of an embassy. The people were > members of Action for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, and > they were protesting the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. > > Here's a case of somebody in our elected government determining that > somebody else "does not have the right to speak." > > Does Freedom of Speech cease to exist 500 feet from the Soviet embassy? > Where does it say that in the Constitution? Strange how the same > demonstration can be legal at the 500 ft. 1 in. mark, but a crime at 499 ft. > 11 in., a distance of 2 inches. > > (Isn't it also strange that demonstrations are permitted in front of the > South African embassy, that of a NON-Communist government?) > The above paragraphs were mixed with others. Yes, it is illegal to demonstrate within 500 feet of an embassy building (must not have been in Iran, eh?). Many people demonstrating in front of the SA embassy were arrested under exactly the same charge, according to my memory of the New York Times articles on same demonstrations. Many such freedoms, guaranteed by constitutions of various nations, are restricted because of clashes of different types of freedoms, freedoms of different people, etc. Libel and slander laws are another example of how the freedom of speech ``right'' is restricted in the US. Property rights are not absolute, either. For instance, it is illegal for a citizen to own an XM-1 (what are they called now?) tank, due to the presumption that he or she would be up to no good. jeff m PS. The American Hemisphere first. Remember, Jose' Marti' was an American, too. So was Pablo Neruda, so is Miguel Obando y Bravo, ... [in reference to Don Black's ``America First'' NAME environment variable]