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The_vagabond7 said:
Soleron said:

Despite disagreeing with the subject matter and the intention (as well as disliking the Party), I would defend their right to produce and play the song to as great an extent as possible. Free speech is more important than a single incident.

 

Free speech is a double edged sword. They can absolutely play that song, they can play it as loud as they want, where ever they want. But alternatively everyone has the freedom of speech to call them racist assholes and not vote for them. Freedom of speech doesn't mean free from criticism from said speech.

 

Indeed.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson