Whether local theaters decide to play Michael Moore's movie
or not is hardly an example of repressed speech or censorship.
Michael Moore has no more right to play his movie in a
privately owned movie theater than he does in my living room.
Business owners are well within their rights to  use economics
as well as moral, religious, or other reasons to decide what they
choose sell in their stores.  While, personally, I'm glad local
theaters decided to play "The Passion of the Christ," it would
not have been censorship had they refused.  Just as anyone has
the right to call and request Fahrenheit 9/11, they have the right
to refuse.


brent mitchell



On Thursday 24 June 2004 09:36 am, you wrote:
> Mr. Rush et al.:
>
> I made a call for the support of free speech. I made no
> INITIAL public endorsement of Michael Moore's views, save
> ONE WORD: "factual." I find it typical that so many
> conservatives here on campus have taken my call for
> protection of free speech as an opportunity to fill our
> inboxes with the same old tired "Michael Moore is a bad
> bad man" arguments. Notably, only one of the
> conservatives who have responded has addressed the issue
> of repressed speech at all.
>
> Regardless of what you think about what Michael Moore has
> to say--or about how he says it--he should have the right
> to say it here in Chattanooga, just like anywhere else.
>
> OK, somebody else email me a link to that SLATE article.
> I DARE you. Come on, I've only received it seven or eight
> times.
>
> jarrod whaley.