Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: [an 174545] at [anon.penet.fi]
Date: Mon,  2 Jan 1995 20:49:12 UTC
Subject: a free society


The arguments on just what we should expect from a free society
(re: thread on "Dutch Engineer" etc.) show an appalling
naivite on the oriental side, and the occidentals have not
taken it far enough. Here is the voice of a Very Conservative
British Pillar-of-the-Establishment type:

"The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some
other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding 
freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called 
liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against 
others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own 
rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is 
always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of 
the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. 
If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be 
complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which 
it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, 
these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of 
having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the 
very hallmark of liberty."
                                --Lord Hailsham

It remains to be seen whether the High Court Judge ever
practiced what he preached when presiding over a drug case, be
that as it may, when the establishment has given us such
powerful weapons as "Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty",
we should employ them at every turn.
                                                Dr. D 

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