XPost: alt.gossip.celebrities, rec.music.country.western
From: cup_o_cakes@yahoo.com
Jason Lane wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:54:07 GMT, "nimue"
> wrotd:
>
> Yet another American with no clue what the First Amendment means.
It means she can speak her mind. That's what she did. It also addresses
freedom of assembly, but that's another matter.
> Congress did not deny her her rights. The state of Texas did not
> silence her.
I never said they did.
>The public told her to shut her ignorant mouth.
It's the public that's ignorant here. It astonishes me -- the sons and
daughters of the public are dying in Iraq for NO reason and an American
engaging in free, pretty mild speech that questions the man who sent those
poor folk to Iraq pisses them off? Please.
>She got
> smacked with a public backlash on her fat ass,
Ah, ad hominem. Her ass has so much to do with, well, nothing.
>and her real sin wasn't
> disagreeing, it was doing it in another country. If she had done it in
> the U.S. the anger wouldn't have been half as bad.
How do you know that? Why is it so bad to say it in another country,
anyway?
>
>> I guess she was thinking that she had the same First Amendment right
>> as everyone else. I guess she was thinking that this war is a
>> horrible nightmare that has shamed us before the whole world. I
>> guess she had the guts not to kow-tow and play a good ol' gal
>> country role and instead decided to be true to herself and, by doing
>> so, to honor the people that have been so devastated by Bush's war.
>> I guess she underestimated how fucking stupid people are and how
>> powerful Clear Channel is. I admire her deeply.
--
nimue
"Joss Whedon is my master now."
"Weird Al Yankovic proves that you gotta be good-looking to make it in
music." I love Weird Al....
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