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sentence "without limiting freedom of speech" an artwork of proganda

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Submitted by myth (Germany), Jan 18, 2010 at 17:28

I will only make reference to what is on this very site. The slogan "without limiting freedom of speech" is an artwork of propaganda. Why ? It reverses direction twice. "without" indicates a limitation of something, which turns out to be "limiting" itself. "freedom" again is opposed to limitation. "freedom" by itself is the absence of limitation. Makes it quite complicated as to what it really says. If I had to rephrase it in an utterly unintelligible way I would say this: "limitation on the limitation of no limitation in speech". Now what in essence does the original say, freedom or limitation ? Clearly it says you have do without something, whatever it is, but doing without is not freedom. That's the propaganda bit, the slogan uses the word "freedom" but actually has other intentions. This reminds me of east-german people who usually say they had "no freedom of travel" in the eighties. Which somebody who grew up in the western world would simply say as "we were imprisoned". Applied to the ad slogan, they could simply say "protecting freedom of religion and freedom of speech".

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Church, Synogogue, Mosque and State Laws? Bill of Rights Prohibitions Anyone? [62 words]Sofa SogoodJan 22, 2010 00:51167705
Dr. Pipes, your site also includes (perfectly legitimately, but strangely) various ads of Islamic matchmaking. [6 words]huckJan 20, 2010 11:21167611
american dream replaced by islam ( multicultural ramadan ad ) [107 words]mythJan 18, 2010 17:36167504
sentence "without limiting freedom of speech" an artwork of proganda [186 words]mythJan 18, 2010 17:28167503
American Taxpayers Promote Islam on my Website. Let them do it, it turns Americans against them. [329 words]Anne- USADec 17, 2009 20:38165977
Is this government coercian? [50 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Edward ClineDec 13, 2009 08:27165771
Must be Obama's pro-Islamist advisers [126 words]ShriniNov 23, 2009 12:24164927
A question of Ethics. [398 words]Norma FaresNov 22, 2009 17:34164900

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