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I've always understood the First Amendment to, in a narrow interpretation, prevent the incarceration of citizens for political speech, but, in a broad interpretation, to prevent the suppression of the quiet voices by the large, whether through threat of violence or through purchasing power.
I think this ruling strikes a tremendous blow to the last vestiges of the ideals upon which this nation was founded.*
*don't get all cynical and say those ideals are already gone
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