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Thread #71755   Message #1230151
Posted By: freightdawg
20-Jul-04 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Linda Ronstadt pulls a Dixie Chicks
Subject: RE: Linda Ronstadt pulls a Dixie Chicks
Hey Bobert,

Sorry to hear you're lookin' for better digs. But you might want to consider carefully where you pitch yer tent. I remember a couple of months ago reading a newspaper story about how someplace in Canada is trying to pass a national law making it illegal to use "hate language" in any place at any time. That's right...a preacher, standing in his pulpit, doing what his congregation is paying him to do, could get sent to the pokey for saying that just about any kind of sin is a sin, seeing as how there are so many of us sinners out there (the preacher was one example specifically mentioned). Don't know if its true or an urban legend, but if true that eliminates Canada. Oh, and France won't let little Muslim girls wear their headscarves to public schools. Scratch off France. I hear over in Britannia there is this nasty little skirmish between the Irish and the English...hmm. Palestinians kill Israelis and Israelis kill Palestinians just because of who they are. Running out of places to go...

Fact is, the fact that this is an issue shows how healthy our free speech is. Linda was free to opine, the paying public was free to boo. The casino was free to fire, and everyone is free to make a gazillion dollars making the rounds of all the morning shows and Oprah style afternoon shows. Freedom of speech and free enterprise...ya gotta love it.

(Love the mostly civil discussion here)

Freightdawg