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mr_lebowski

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1. Yeah ... I'm not positive but I think your '1st Amendment rights' are curtailed when you sign up

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 12:16 AM

Dec 2020

for the military.

Pretty sure this guy doesn't actually understand that the amendment just says you can't be prosecuted for what you say.

Doesn't say anything about being expelled from school. Esp. not a military academy.

You're free to SAY it, but there's no guarantee there will not be consequences ... they just won't be jail.

Pretty simple concept.

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Yeah ... I'm not positive but I think your '1st Amendment rights' are curtailed when you sign up mr_lebowski Dec 2020 #1

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