But, to answer your question: did you
do something illegal? Of course not. Insensitive, foolish and
intellectually bankrupt, perhaps - none of which are punishable
offences.

AH... nice dodge.... as you see, the very point of bringing up
the fact that "freedom of speech is frequently curtailed today,
such as the following examples..." would ONLY be brought
up to imply that what I did was NOT protected by the concept
of freedom of speech.

I put it to you; if this is NOT the case, if there is NO insinuation
of same, then WHY bring up the fact that there are certain
extreme cases where free speech is limited or halted, when I claim
the right to do so? Just for the purpose of conversation? I think
such a claim is paper thin and WEAK at best.

I suspect that the Nazi
(not the euphemistic full 'National Socialist' name that you now use
in this post) reference

the two are the same; but I digress, I am not sure what point you
are making by trying to distinguish the two

was used because it was the only card left to
play in an otherwise empty hand.

and at THAT point you are no longer discussing fact and are in
fact using opinion. The truth of the matter is that the PCTA crowd
is long out of factual support and credible reasoning to keep
the morse code testing; they abandon any further hopes now
with all sorts of dodging tactics- and if, by the way, you find
resentment to the use of nazi, I likewise, would find resentment
with the discriptions "too lazy", "dumb", "stupid", and "moron".
HOWEVER, instead of dropping to the ground and kicking
my feet and clenching my fist and screaming as a child does
when it's bottle is taken away, I am continueing the debate.



Due to the atrocities committed
during WW II, the word "Nazi" has severely negative connotations for a
large percentage of the world's population,

okay, you get the "DUH" award of the day for that one. KEEN grasp
of the obvious.

reaching beyond the
Hogan's Heroes-esque usage that you recognize and reminding them of
the horrors of that regime, for many in a very personal way.

believe me, I was not reaching for a humorous or laughable reference.
My use of a "will not accept change" analogy was intended at the latter
reality of the regime, not the former comedy that you referred to.

however, it was your right to enter the conversation, even if you
had nothing new factual to add, and you may continue doing so.

Care to point out the color of the grass and the sky now?
/reductio ad absurdum

Clint
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