cliff@unmvax.UUCP (12/22/84)
For people reading this in net.politics, check out <249@ahuta.UUCP> in one of
net.{books,movies,legal,women}. The subject is an ordinance that defines the
sale, distribution, display, etc. of "pornography" to be a violation of women's
civil rights.
> [My summary: If this ordinance is actually upheld, we're in big trouble. Free
> speech, due process, presumption of innocence, and who knows what else have all
> been trampled in the activists' attempt to right what *they* think is wrong.
> I'd rather make up my own mind, thank you, than have some self-appointed Moral
> Majority tell *me* what to think. This ordinance is just the first step to a
> police state and I won't stand for it!]
>
> Evelyn C. Leeper
> ...{ihnp4, houxm, hocsj}!ahuta!ecl
The ordinance is a blatant violation of the first amendment. Don't count on
the Supreme Court performing its duty. The military draft was a blatant
violation of the thirteenth amendment. Luckily the justices are apt to pay
more attention to one of the original ten than to any latter amendment.
--Cliff [Matthews]
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4744 Trumbull S.E. - Albuquerque NM 87108 - (505) 265-9143riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/29/84)
Let's please follow the request of the originator of this discussion and post all followups to net.women. (That's where I just posted mine.) Thanks.
tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) (12/29/84)
Please do not shift the discussion of book-banning ordinances to net.women, where it certainly does not belong. At least double-post to net.books, the appropriate forum for discussing such attempts to censor books and magazines. Thank you. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.