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To: Law
So people can now be jailed for running an ad that criticizes an officeholder or candidate for office before an election? This is no longer a free nation.
206 posted on 12/10/2003 7:55:32 AM PST by tomahawk
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To: tomahawk
So people can now be jailed for running an ad that criticizes an officeholder or candidate for office before an election? This is no longer a free nation.

Hard to argue with your assessment.

220 posted on 12/10/2003 7:57:18 AM PST by Law
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To: tomahawk
Exactly. You criticize a politician two months before an election and you go to jail. Which means practically anytime in the next year. This decision is the same league as Dred Scott, Roe V Wade And Lawrence V Texas. Another unconstitutional atrocity birthed by the SCOTUS Supremes.
222 posted on 12/10/2003 7:58:30 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: tomahawk
So people can now be jailed for running an ad that criticizes an officeholder or candidate for office before an election?

Or praises one for that matter. The other side, whichever side that might be, can be counted on to turn you in. Of course noone would run your ad anyway, because they could then be held as an accessory. Freedom of the press just went down along with freedom of speech. Much of "the press" hasn't figured that out yet.

1,465 posted on 12/10/2003 3:16:52 PM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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