Obscene content in cygwin file.

[Andrew DeFaria]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:26:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>
>>> Jerry Williams, not of the band Grateful Dead, wrote:
>>>
>>>> ==> fortunes2-o <==
>>>> Would you please have another look at my nose and put in that
>>>> cocaine stuff....
>>>> -- Adolf Hitler, quoted by Dr. Giesing in Nuremberg trial
>>>
>>> Is something like this even legal in Germany?
>>
>> Why would you suggest that expressing a thought, however you might 
>> disagree with it, should be illegal?
>
> Probably because some expressions relating to Nazism are illegal in 
> Germany. One of our German users would probably know this for sue.

It may be - doesn't make it right...

>> Are you sure your an American?!?
>
> Why would speculating on another country's laws make someone un-American?

Oh I don't know. Something about the part that goes "We hold these 
truths to be self evident...". As an American I believe that these 
truths, like the freedom as speech, are self evident, even when other 
countries suppress such things.


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