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To: airdalechief

“EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee Sues California Over Unprecedented Crackdown On Satire, Parody”

When you read a headline as in the above, two things should come to mind:

1. Has there EVER been a similar attempt by Conservatives to shut down speech that made fun of them?

2. If not, then just which side is the ‘threat to Democracy’?


6 posted on 10/01/2024 4:13:54 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL
1. Has there EVER been a similar attempt by Conservatives to shut down speech that made fun of them?

Alien and Sedition Acts ?

Now whether you would consider John Adams to be a "conservative" ... I dunno, although I would probably consider him to be more conservative than his opponent Mr. Jefferson.

Note that, when I was a pup, the anti-free speech provisions of the Alien & Sedition Acts were held up as an example of a law that is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. (In point of fact, it was repealed before the courts got around to ruling on it.)

28 posted on 10/01/2024 11:12:45 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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