Colin,
You are the last person I would have expected to fall into THAT trap. Yeah, the 1st Amendment guarantees your freedom of speech...from CONGRESS! If I want to tell you to shut up, that's between you and me. "CONGRESS shall make no law...". My point is that people who do not bother to vote really don't care, so I would rather not hear what they have to say. Same basically for non-citizens. Now, they can challenge me one-to-one on it; but the Constitution cannot guarantee them the right to speak without guaranteeing me the right to tell them to 'shut the fuck up'.
I repeat...write your elected representatives in the House and the Senate. Write Bush. DO NOT toss in the crap about Iran/Contra, because that will target the 'round file' with your mail.
BTW, Poindexter WAS convicted of several felonies; and should not even be sweeping floors in a gov't building.
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