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Finnish District Court squashes free speech

Finnish District Court squashes free speech

By • on September 8, 2009

Note from editor: There may be no more important application of free speech, than the right to criticize irrational religious authority. Without this one freedom, all the rest are meaningless and can be deemed illegal or blasphemous after the fact and at the whim of anyone in a funny hat. James Cohen

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