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	Indecency

kkcapricorn

3-30-2008 2:55 PM

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first amendment, indecency, legislation

kkcapricorn says:

As Chris Finan, ABFFE president, says "It is un-American to force booksellers to register with the government based on the kinds of books they carry," and it is yet another symptom of just how demented it is to mandate registering books, and not firearms. When was the last time we heard about a fatality that results from reading "Lady Chatterley's Lover?"

Here we go again. Who will be this generation's Larry Flint? Who gets to decide what's decent?

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