Posted on 02/24/2015 10:49:12 AM PST by BlueStateRightist
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal government decision to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademark because it may be disparaging infringes on free-speech rights and unfairly singles the team out, lawyers argued in court papers filed Monday.
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Better get your guns and ammo b4 it’s too late.
He’s lawyer isn’t he?.....................
If I had a Trademark for Savage Dark Skinned Cannibals..would the gubment come after me?
Im surprised that they dont just slap em with a huge fine...
I wish him every success, but with the track record of unconstitutionality and freedom in the courts, it is a difficult battle.
If they take your money to issue the trademark, then the trademark is yours, pure and simple. Anything else would be an unconstitutional ex-post facto law.
That particular trademark was issued about 80 years ago.
The FED ‘should’ have a difficult time getting any such long-term trademark cancelled. If the courts allow individual administrations to change and challenge old trademarks, they open a can of worms.
IN A SANE WORLD...yes!
these aren’t simply P.C. pretensions....they’re involved in its utter madness
So far,I have only noticed WHITE skinned LIBERALS complaining about the Redskins’ trademark and name and logo.
Not as much hoo-ha over the Cleveland Indians though.
Where are the demonstrating Sioux, Apache, Kiowa, Commanche and members of dozens of other tribes?
If it was the “Native Americans” (INDIANS) parading and protesting I would think my opinion over, but they seem quite busy living their lives.
“Savage Dark Skinned Cannibals”... as a Cherokee, “redskin” doesn’t bother me one bit but I really don’t care for your description at all.
#1 - it’s an attack on free speech. The government can not regulate our use of language.
#2 - Our government can not sieze property from us without “just compensation”. Logos and trademarks are intellectural property and covered under that clause of our Constitution.
So if the skins cannot have copyright on something considered racist, the “Song of the South” falls into public domain?
Mikey, why do you automatically consider Cannibals to be dark skinned? This is the United States of America and as far as I know, cannibalism here is the historical property of whites. Consider:
1. The DONNER party, white settlers caught by winter snows in western mountains and reduced to eating their dead for survival.
2. Jeffrey Dohmer, came to fame really fairly recently, also white.
3. John Wayne Gacey. Another white man with rather strange appetites.
I cannot remember a case of cannibalism involving a “dark skinned” American. I could be wrong, of course.
Now, Africa as well as Pacific Islands are a different matter.
yes., a disbarred one at that.
I got a japanese laserdisc pressing of Song of the South back in the 80’s because it was such an awesome historical curiosity.
Unfortunately it had laser rot.
Mr. Comanchee, meet Mr. Tonkawa.
“A federal government decision to cancel the Washington Redskins’ trademark because it may be disparaging...”
Will they cancel all the other team trademarks?
Braves, Indians, Fighting Irish, Padres, Yankees, etc?
Read the book ‘Wilderness Empire’ there were plenty of cannibals among the Indians.
It had nothing to do with anything “indian”,...nor dark skinned savage cannibals....so to speak..it had to do with the Federal Governments ts all reaching arm.
what business...is it of any government.... WHAT... I call anything ???
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