Save the Koran, burn the Constitution--Justice Breyer sacrifices the 1st Amendment to placate Islam

The Washington Times ^ | September 14, 2010 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

You can't burn a Koran in a crowded theater, and Supreme CourtJustice Stephen Breyer suggests that to placate foreign extremists, Koran burning might be banned everywhere else in America too.

In an interview aired Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America,"Justice Breyer, who is on tour promoting his new book, averred that in the Internet age, speech traditionally protected by the First Amendment may have to be weighed against its global impact. George Stephanopoulos asked the justice about the canceled Sept. 11 Koran burning proposed by Pastor Terry Jones, and whether the fact that people riot in Afghanistan over what happens in the United States poses a challenge to the First Amendment or could "change the nature of what we can allow and protect."

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It's troubling that a member of the Supreme Court would imply that anything that happens abroad in response to the exercise of free speech in this country should somehow inform the high court in assessing the boundaries of the First Amendment. This is symptomatic of creeping internationalism in the thinking of some justices. In this case, though, the suggestion is not simply to follow the lead of foreign courts, but to take into consideration the violent actions of foreign radicals when weighing American freedoms. Justice Breyer seems open to such a balancing test, in which acts should be banned if they offend a small minority of anti-American extremists who respond with irrational violence.

[Monorprise]

“Liberalism truly is a mental disorder”

Indeed but more importantly our supposed Government of law is demonstratively a government of men appointed by the same people who are supposedly limited by them Constitutional laws.

[DTogo]

He might see a nice payday after suing the state.

[livius]

Let’s hope so!

[Honorary Serb]

....speech traditionally protected by the First Amendment may have to be weighed against its global impact....

The Founding Fathers did NOT make laws based on “global impact”. Instead, it was OUR laws, Constitution, etc. that led the way for the rest of the world!!!!