Fantastic posting Gene/Jane with some great (and funny) points.

But, it might be a little too complicated for some of "small minds" that lurk around here...

HOW ABOUT.... Greg could design a word recoginition program for all posting. It could be nicknamed the "NAZI" (No Anal Zealots Invited) FILTERING SYSTEM. All potential posts would be reviewed by "NAZI". IF the program determined that certain key words and phrases in the submitted post indicated that the contributor did NOT believe in true freedom of speech in an open forum... The post would automatically be rejected and sent to that person's email program wit a "Love Bug" type virus atached to it. Then an email would be sent to everyone in that person's address book with the message - "BYTE ME".

BTW, as most people on this board know (or SHOULD know..) the First Amendment and the Free Speech portion ONLY applies to the GOVERNMENT. THEY are prohibited for passing laws from what we can say and write. BUT, since the Constitution / Bill of Rights was technically suspended back in 1934 and all of us 'citizens' were declared as 'enemies of the state' - it's really a mute point. They allow us to buy alcohol and gamble, get our minds dulled by prescription drugs and give us a circus once in awhile... We stay happy.

(That reminds me...Gotta get my meds reviewed next week...)

#;^))

Steve in Albuquerque