Amerikan "free speech" hypocrisy 

By MC206

While prison wardens across Amerika have been censoring MIM 
Notes for stating the principle -- shared by the authors of 
Amerika's Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln --
that the oppressed have a "revolutionary right to dismember 
or overthrow" a reactionary government,(1) a federal appeals 
court overturned a $109 million judgment against a group of 
anti-abortion cretins which published wanted posters listing 
the names, addresses, and license-plate numbers of abortion 
providers. The posters referred to the doctors as "baby 
butchers."

Several of the doctors on the posters were 
killed, their names crossed off of later posters. The 
appeals court based its decision on a 1982 Supreme Court 
ruling, NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. In that case, the 
court decided that activists could not be prevented from 
publicly threatening to "break the necks" of shoppers who 
ignored a boycott against certain stores. 

The court differentiated "quintessentially political statements made 
at a public rally" from threats made directly to 
individuals.(2) Which only goes to show the hypocrisy of 
Amerikan rhetoric about "free speech." 

Since its inception MIM has never advocated undertaking 
armed struggle in contemporary Amerika. It's never threatened 
to beat anybody up or published the home addresses of its enemies, 
letting readers "use their imagination." Yet MIM is repeatedly 
censored for making "quintessentially political statements" 
about the principles of revolutionary violence vs. non-
violence, while a group of backwards-looking thugs can abet 
murder and get away with it in the name of "free speech." 

MIM believes that the general public will enjoy greater 
"free speech" rights under the dictatorship of the 
proletariat than they currently do under U.$ imperialism.(3) 
However, that does not apply to those who place religious 
beliefs ahead of the right of the masses to health care and 
use intimidation and violence to get their way. Such people 
will find themselves in thought-reform camp, prison, or, in 
the case of murder, executed.

Notes: 1. Abraham Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," 
www.bartleby.com/124/pres31.html. 2. Andrew Quinn, "U.S. 
tosses major anti-abortion verdict," Reuters, 28 Mar 2001. 
3. 1999 Congress Resolution: "Free speech" under the 
dictatorship of the proletariat, 
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/wim/cong/freespeech.html.