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To: Protagoras

I am sticking to the article, the article doesn't present enough facts to know if the person should have been arrested.

Yes you do have a right to hold up rude signs. What you don't have is the right to hold them up at the time and place of your chosing forcing the audience of your choice to read them.

You reserve the right to hold up all the rude signs your little hands can hold, and I reserve the right to tell you to get the hell out of my way, and I see no problem with George Bush or even Bill Clinton telling you to get the hell out of their way. Freedom of speech does NOT include time, place, and audience, it never has and it never will and anybody that thinks it does needs to take a remedial reading lesson.


183 posted on 05/14/2004 10:31:03 AM PDT by discostu (Brick urgently required, must be thick and well kept)
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To: discostu
Freedom of speech does NOT include time, place, and audience, it never has and it never will and anybody that thinks it does needs to take a remedial reading lesson.

It appears you need a remedial First Amendment lesson.

Your above assertion is entirely wrong. In fact, it's in direct contrast to decades of well-established constitutional law.

188 posted on 05/14/2004 10:43:20 AM PDT by gdani (letting the marketplace decide = conservatism)
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To: discostu
the article doesn't present enough facts to know if the person should have been arrested.

Precisely, so you can only go by the article, not "facts" you imagine.

I am sticking to the article,

Umm, your comment belies that.

Freedom of speech does NOT include time, place, and audience, it never has and it never will and anybody that thinks it does needs to take a remedial reading lesson.

Please refrain from veiled personal attacks.

You reserve the right to hold up all the rude signs your little hands can hold, and I reserve the right to tell you to get the hell out of my way, and I see no problem with George Bush or even Bill Clinton telling you to get the hell out of their way.

They can tell me whatever they want, until they do something about it, they are within their rights.

Yes you do have a right to hold up rude signs. What you don't have is the right to hold them up at the time and place of your chosing forcing the audience of your choice to read them.

Nonsense. A public place where people are allowed to greet politicians it is allowed in a free society to express whatever they want, adoration or derision. No one is being forced to read any sign.

Your suggestion would allow idolaters to show up when politicians are present and restrict protesters to places and times of day when they are not present. That is a bizarre concept of free expression of political speech in America.

190 posted on 05/14/2004 10:44:20 AM PDT by Protagoras (When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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