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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 03/02/2011 : 23:35:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
The Supreme Court issued its ruling on Synder's case today. As is constitutionally correct, picketing funerals was found to be speech protected by the First Amendment, no matter how reprehensible it might be.
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Yeah. I just read about it. And I agree with the decision. Bummer though. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/03/2011 : 03:33:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by Dave W.
The Supreme Court issued its ruling on Synder's case today. As is constitutionally correct, picketing funerals was found to be speech protected by the First Amendment, no matter how reprehensible it might be.
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Yeah. I just read about it. And I agree with the decision. Bummer though.
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Bummer indeed. And this will encourage them to do more because violating their 1st Amendment rights gives them more grounds for lawsuits.
But y'know, some folks won't care much about what the court says when they bring their gross insult to to the funeral of a loved one. While I too, agree with the decision, I think little good will come of it at best, and might get some Phelps or other shot. While that looks like a worthy goal, it will be the shooter who goes to jail.
Alito votes against it; I wonder why.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2011 : 14:16:48 [Permalink]
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Thoughts of the Rude Pundit.
Let's get a couple of things straight here: Almost no one actually supports the Westboro Baptist Church, a handful of inbred, dick-faced, walking cumstains whose accumulated intelligence and number of teeth drag the human species a few rungs down the evolutionary ladder to that level where throwing one's own shit is seen as a valid expression of dissent. The fact that no one has gunned them down demonstrates pretty fucking clearly that violence against people is not really big in the arsenal of liberals. The fact that no God has grabbed them from their picket near the funerals of dead soldiers or anyone and strung them up by their intestines and allowed them to be organ pinatas for starving Third World children is probably the best evidence out there that atheists are right.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Phelps is going after children now
