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Joe Offer	BS:Statues-Are we any better than ISIS or al-Qaeda (147* d)	RE: BS:Statues-Are we any better than ISIS or al-Qaeda	27 Aug 17
You're getting things confused, Ake. As I said before, government does not have "freedom of speech," because government is bound to represent and serve ALL the people. These statues are publicly owned and on public land. If they were on private land, that would be a different matter. That's where "freedom of speech" might apply. Stone Mountain in Georgia, probably the best-known Confederate monument, is a separate matter on its own. The carving is on private property with roots in the Ku Klux Klan, but that private property is completely surrounded by a state park. How did that come to be? But no, public land and public money cannot be used for the promotion of racism in the United States. -Joe Offer-

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