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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
   "Thanatos"  wrote in message   
   news:atropos-73B412.01332423042010@news-wc.giganews.com...   
   > In article ,   
   > Barry Margolin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >>  Thanatos  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > Ultimately, if some Muslim wack-job does something violent both the   
   >> > legal and moral responsibility lies with the wack-job. We thankfully   
   >> > haven't reached the point yet where the victim of extortion bears   
   >> > culpability for not surrendering their freedoms to the extorters.   
   >>   
   >> The wack-jobs are litigation-proof, Comedy Central isn't.   
   >   
   > Which brings me back to their lack of spine. Any media outlet, even a   
   > comedy channel, that's willing to give up the fundamental freedom which   
   > is the lifeblood of its industry merely because they might be sued has   
   > no business being in that industry in the first place.   
      
   These 'media outlets' regularly give up their 'fundamental freedom' for much   
   less.  How is this different than when the idiot rightwingers put together a   
   sponsor boycott against advertisers and cause programs to alter their   
   content?  You think that Comedy Central should risk the lives of their   
   innovent employees, but that it is less spineless for them to fold if the   
   PTC threatens to tell people to stop buying soap from an advertiser?   
      
   You are picking a really poor fight here.  if you want to 'show some balls'   
   and 'defend your right to free speech', go out there and do it yourself.   
   Dress up as Muhammed and dance around like an idiot in front of one of these   
   extremist Mosque's on the terror watch list.  Stop asking the secretaries,   
   accountants,  and security guards working for Comedy Central to risk their   
   lives to defend some vaguely a co-worker's right to draw an offensive   
   cartoon.   
      
   > And as I said elsewhere in the thread, any lawsuit trying to hold CC   
   > responsible for the violent actions of others merely because they   
   > declined to be blackmailed into giving up one of their constitutionally   
   > guaranteed freedoms wouldn't survive summary judgment.   
      
   You remain wrong in your conclusion.   
      
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