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	Larry Craig: Toe Tapping is Protected Free Speech

BartendingBear

1-10-2008 10:00 AM

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BartendingBear says:

The distortion his defence makes of the law to say he only alarmed one, not "others" is disgusting and an insult to the American intelligence.

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