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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Libraries won't stand up for First Amendment
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 12:41:43 -0500
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On 1/3/2025 12:42 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:25:59 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> The library has a diversity equity and inclusion statement about all
>>>> being welcome painted on a prominent wall near one of the entrances, but
>>>> it seems they don't mean it.
> 
>>>> Just to be clear, mime: Just because I had no interest in seeing the
>>>> movie myself doesn't mean others shouldn't be allowed to see it.
> 
>>> If the $3k fee is legitimate, rather than a "poison pill" of
>>> discouragement, the ACLU's constitutionality charge is bogus.
> 
>> Would the argument be legit if the library had demanded $300k?
> 
> moviePig is standing up for the censors, as always.
> 
> The news reports did not state that those demanding that the movie not be
> shown had made threats. There was just fear of potential violence based
> on the political nature of the speech.
> 
> moviePig actually understands why this is government censorship and
> therefore unconstitutional. He just hates liberty.

The question (for a reasonable unbiased arbiter) is whether that "fear 
of potential violence" is both extraordinary and justified ...as the 
mere claim of having a "political nature" doesn't invoke a free ride.