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To: Red in Blue PA
"It's no different than Snoop Dogg or Tupac," Watkins said. "It's telling the story of street life. If we are trying to criminalize artistic expression, what's next, Brian DePalma and Al Pacino?"

The advocate should be careful in trying to stretch a legal concept too far.

Call Rap art maybe taking the legal notion of art as a form of speech protected by the first amendment to an absurd extreme.

Calling Rap art is laughable in its self.

ON the other hand the prosecutors are on very thin ice if they are basing their case strictly on the album cover.

14 posted on 11/21/2014 9:29:17 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

“Call Rap art maybe taking the legal notion of art as a form of speech protected by the first amendment to an absurd extreme.

Calling Rap art is laughable in its self.”

Free-speech for me but not for thee for I am righteous! /sarc

You are using the same thought processes as liberals when they try to shut us down, just saying.


37 posted on 11/21/2014 10:25:18 AM PST by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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