From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Liberals DO oppose First Amendment rights
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:25:17 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

In article <92317.231441MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Mark 'Mark' Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>Perhaps my memory fails me, but I don't recall too many significant
>instances of "liberals" fighting free speech, beyond a few trivial
>and likely unconstitutional speech codes at universities, and a **JOKE**
>posting proposing the rmgroup of alt.rush-limbaugh. In my experience
>liberals have been quite forthright in defense of the First Amendment.
>
>Perhaps you can point out a few opposing examples for us?

   I would be happy to.  A few weeks ago, some femists here at Iowa State
started really pushing the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa
Constitution.  They put signs up EVERYWHERE pushing the admendment and
advertizing rallies by true feminazis like Eleanor Smeal.  Many of the
signs were outright male-bashing, such as the ones that headlined
"WE REMEMBER ANITA HILL!!!!"

   I eventually decided to put up some signs of my own.  I had received
an 11"x17" flyer in the mail from a group opposing the Iowa ERA.  I
had the flyer reduced to 8.5"x14", and started posting copies around the
campus.  It did not take long for me to notice that my signs would 
disappear not longer after I'd post them.  Neither I nor anybody else
touched any of the signs posted by the feminists, but my signs were
very rapidly torn down.

   On one occasion, I was walking with a friend through the campus, and
talking to him about the incident with my signs.  We came to a building
where I'd posted several, and miraculously enough some were still 
there.  We left briefly, came back five minutes later, and sure enough
they were gone.  As I was pointing out the disappearance of the signs,
the girl who tore them down suddenly appeared.

   My experiences with my anti-ERA signs were by no means unique.  I
was told by a friend who is involved with the local Campus Crusade
for Christ that they have a terrible time keeping signs up.  The signs
they post are threatening to absolutely nobody, yet they often have to
repost the same sign several times because it will get repeatedly
torn down.  

   All of this leads me to the solid conclusion that conservatives
are the real guarantors of First Amendment Rights in the U.S.  Liberals
support other people's First Amendment rights only when the speach 
agrees with them.  Liberals have concocted a large number of terms 
like "political correctness" in attempt to stifle the First Amendment
rights of people with opposing viewpoints.  Political incorrectness
**IS** fully protected by the First Amendment, but liberals refuse to
accept this.  Conservatives, however, always respect the First Amendment
rights of everybody, regardless of opposing viewpoints.

   Liberals are no more the guarantors of the First Amendment than
totalitarians are the guarantors of personal freedoms.

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