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A couple weeks ago, I went to Colonial Williamsburg.
They had a little play on Duke of Gloucester Street set up to demonstrate this very thing.
A group of soldiers had overheard a man expressing loyalty to the British Crown and calling the American troops "fools". They assembled a kangaroo court, declared him guilty of "seditious speech" and set about to tar and feather him. One of the Burgesses discovered what was going on and put a stop to it, ordered them to let the man go.
Why?
"Expressing an opinion, even a distasteful one, is not a crime. Every man has a right to speak his mind."
You would be amazed the people I heard bitching as they walked away from that play.....who did not get it....AT ALL. A man standing behind me mumbled, "You can't even escape the liberal bullshit in Williamsburg."
Just thought I'd share that.
Dave
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