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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 08/16/2010 : 16:06:34
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/16/missouri.funeral.protests.ruling/index.html?hpt=T2
I don't know if to be glad of this or pissed off. On one hand they do have a right to say what they want, but on the other hand 300 feet isn't that far away and people deserve a chance to put their love one's body to rest.
Very frustrated that in order to uphold my rights I have to let this man's bad taste in place and time go.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley |
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2010 : 19:49:31 [Permalink]
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| Didn't we agree this was probably going to happen sometime a few months ago? |
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
-Giordano Bruno
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."
-Stephen Hawking
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable"
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| Edited by - Machi4velli on 08/16/2010 19:51:58 |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 08/16/2010 : 20:48:29 [Permalink]
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This guy is a piece of shit.
But, despite that, he is in the US. We don't really have a choice but to let him say his bit. In fact, we shouldn't feel upset by that but rather we should feel a sense of pride.
As soon as we deny one person that right, where would we stop? No limits on speech other than those that exist to protect the rights/safety of others. No incitement to violence, no yelling fire in a crowd, etc. The rest has to be allowed. No exceptions.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 08/18/2010 : 18:31:56 [Permalink]
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I'm actually happy. This is a good day for the 1st Amendment.
Phelps is a complete bag-o-crap and I'd love to participate in the protest at his funeral.
I just find it a bit odd that the useless knee-biter didn't get any press until he moved his protests from the funerals for gay men (something he had done for quite some time and was met by the angel squad who had large wings to block out the sight of the protesters from the grieving families) and moved to US servicemen. What the lawmakers failed to see as a problem then became a huge problem now.
Heck, he didn't even get that much press when he tried to get a statue of Matthew Shepherd erected in his home town park saying that he entered Hell on his date of death and listed Levitican passages.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Judge rules in favor for free speech (and Phelps)
