Subject: Re: Cult Taking Over the Newsgroup > History Repeating Itself From: David Mayo Date: 1996/05/31 Message-Id: <4olrod$hhh@light.lightlink.com> Sender: electra@light.lightlink.com Organization: Art Matrix - Lightlink Electra Gateway v2.4 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 30 May 1996 15:53:33 -0500, Christi Rockwell wrote: >Rich Burroughs wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 27 May 1996 19:26:59 +0100, Sister Clara wrote: >> >> [snip] >> > How dare anyone suggest that my freedom to post any number of times to ars >> > or any other newsgroup should be curtailed? >> [snip] >> >> Yeah, how dare anyone suggest... >> >> Because you're interested in all of our freedoms of speech, huh? > >if ya'll were really interested in freedom of speech you wouldn't be >talking about censorship at all. > >oh god, i wish i could remember the quote... > >basically, if you want to protect *your* freedoms, the best way to do it >is to protect the freedoms of others, including your enemy. I was so pleased to read this, I almost cried. > >in my opinion, there is no reason compelling enough that has yet been >given for curtailing mine or other users speech on the net. i don't >believe protecting our children from possible evils (the parents should >do that)... or protecting the forum to keep it free from scientology >posted drivel... because anytime we arbitrarily restrict the rights of >any one group we restrict the rights of all. This is the best and most fundamentally true post I have read here. Rev. David Mayo "So many have fallen, yet so far left to go ... " (finger for key) PGP ID: 1024/4D5EE559 1996/01/04 PGP Fingerprint: 0D 69 92 87 79 2F 38 72 FE 03 CE 51 31 D5 6D E9 ***************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMa5nS+mCyCdNXuVZAQGzWQQAmZTsFbPuPjl2sTsoX5JUd+XochBN+PpD JVov1LGTMEyyfu51o8iNzir8w9l8hj/mWQUBHocVIcM1MRk8ZOzbXYIWOOICAcOm EfpQbX77N1gQciYtiJIK1U0OTKZJm7mRZLbVtkoKA+1OXPZklP/TPFrpY9zfSfrs MsESxUQ0Igs= =7P+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----