At 02:09 AM 8/30/97 EDT, you wrote:
>After reading several simplistic rationalizations like...
>... so if we don't like what is on them we can turn the knob all
>>the way to  the left. WHEN CENSORSHIP THRIVES THE RIGHT TO FREE SPECH IS
>DEMINISHED ALONG WITH  OTHER RIGHTS I HOLD DEAR!!
>       ...I REALLY began to be offended.
>
>Of COURSE, the best response to the original bit of barnyard humor was to
>ignor it but the vigorous DEFENSE of material that was not only crude but
>outside the perameters of the list subject---makes that an abrogation of
>responsibility.
>
 
First of all the simplistic rationalization you refer to doesn't defend or
condone the material you were offended to, however it does vigorously defend
the right to free speech, the right to assemble peaceable, the right to own
and bare arms etc. You need to read it againe.